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The East Cornwall Mineral Railway was a 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge industrial railway opened in 1872 to serve the iron ore and stone quarries around Callington in Cornwall.
The line was 7½ miles long running from Kelly Bray to Calstock, where an rope-worked incline ran down to the quay on the River Tamar. There were several branches serving copper, tin and arsenic mines and quarries. [1]
An Act of Parliament in 1883 authorised the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway to take over the line. The purchase was completed in 1894. The line was rebuilt to 4 ft 8½ in (1,435 mm) standard gauge, although for the period 1894 to 1908 it was dual gauged. [1]
[edit] Locomotives
| Number |
Builder |
Type |
Date |
Works number |
Notes |
| 1 |
Neilson & Co. |
0-4-0ST |
1871 |
1660 |
Probably scrapped in 1907 [2] |
| 2 |
Neilson &Co. |
0-4-0ST |
1871 |
1661 |
Converted to a standard gauge 0-4-2ST around 1907. Sold in 1912 and worked on the Selsey Tramway until scrapped in 1927 [2] |
[edit] References
- ^ a b Dart, Maurice (2005). Cornwall Narrow Gauge including the Camborne & Redruth tramway. Middleton Press. ISBN 1-90447-456-X.
- ^ a b www.trainweb.org - Callington Branch locomotives.
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