Bodmin and Wenford Railway

The Bodmin & Wenford Railway is a heritage railway, with headquarters in the small town of Bodmin in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It has a connection to the national rail network ( Network Rail ) at Bodmin Parkway Railway Station, the south-eastern end of the line.

Route

The four stations of the Bodmin & Wenford Railway are all located in or near Bodmin. Two track arms are each in the south-east and north-westerly direction from railhead Bodmin General in the city of Bodmin. The 3.5 miles ( 5.6 km ) long route southeastern portion extends over the breakpoint Colesloggett stop to the station Bodmin Parkway, which serves as an interchange station to the main railway line, operated by the company First Great Western. The northwestern section ends after 3 miles (4.8 km ) on Boscarne Junction railway station on the River Camel.

The route to Bodmin Parkway runs first south-east of Bodmin General at the city limits Bodmins along, then turning to the northeast toward Turfdown. After passing under the motorway A30 ( Okehampton - Penzance ) increases the railway line at something and swings at Turfdown in an easterly direction to the breakpoint Colesloggett stop near Fletchersbridge on the southwestern edge of Bodmin Moor. From there it follows a gradient of a stream at the west bank to the south, where it crosses under the road A38 to Plymouth, and bridges immediately before Bodmin Parkway to the Fowey river on a fünfbögigen viaduct.

In the opposite direction after Boscarne Junction begins shortly after Bodwin General a downhill slope that extends down into the valley of the River Camel down. The route thereby describes an arc extending in a westerly direction to the southern development boundary of the town Bodmin, before the route after crossing under the road A389 - pivots on a northwest orientation ( Bodmin Penzance ). The Boscarne Junction Railway Station is located behind a river bridge on the north bank of the Camel at the Camel Trail, a walking and cycle path on the route of the former Bodmin & Wade Ford Railway, whose tracks were dismantled. To be used by the Railway Museum is a reconstruction of the railway line that reached once Padstow along the Camel to Wadebridge Guinea Port in planning.

History

As one of the first railway lines of Britain as well as the world was opened in the Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway in 1834, which passed in 1846 was sold to the London & South Western Railway. In addition to the main route of Wadebridge Wenfordbridge after the track had a branch line to Bodmin, then the capital of Cornwall, with the Bodmin North station ( " Bodmin North ").

Through the Cornwall Railway, an associate of the Great Western Railway and adopted by this in 1889, in 1859 the railway line between Plymouth and Truro was inaugurated with the Bodmin Road station (now Bodmin Parkway ). As a competitor to the London & South Western Railway was a struggle over its own city terminal near the center of Bodmin, who with the stretch of Bodmin Road on May 27, 1887 - Bodmin General, completed by 1882 formed subsidiary of the Great Western Railway, the Bodmin Railway been.

In the following year, until September 3, 1888 a link from Bodmin General was prepared to Wadebridge to train to Boscarne Junction. The lines of the Bodmin Railway were in contrast to the broad gauge track ( 2140 mm) of the Cornwall Railway standard gauge and were therefore of line adapted to Wadebridge. The main route of the Cornwall Railway was until 1892 converted to standard gauge. After the decline of freight from Wenford the routes were shut down to Bodmin on 3 October 1983.

After the decision of the British Rail to the track closing the Bodmin Railway Preservation Society was founded on 28 June 1984, with the intention of the web to get in Bodmin. To achieve this goal, the company created on 19 February 1985, the Bodmin & Wenford Railway plc, a public company to raise capital and business-like operation management of the envisaged museum railway from Bodmin.

Despite the support of the North Cornwall District Councils through the purchase of the relevant land, the company could not acquire the entire planned route from Bodmin Parkway via Bodmin General and Boscarne Junction to Wenford Bridge due to lack of funds, so that you do on 9 August 1985 for the purchase a portion of the route from Bodmin Parkway to Boscarne Junction decided. As of January 1986, the Bodmin Railway Preservation Society got access to the route, the purchase was completed by 31 March 1986. Now, the web could be made available to the public.

On June 1, 1986 was the first " open day " held at the station on the grounds of Bodmin General steam locomotives of the Cornish Steam Locomotive Preservation Society were presented during operation. Founded in 1973 Society for the Preservation Cornish steam locomotives, based in Bugle near St. Austell, moved its headquarters to 1987 Bodmin. For the station building of Bodmin General had to go through the North Cornwall District Council nor an existing lease with a furniture company be terminated before the Bodmin Railway Preservation Society was able to enter as a tenant of all the railways in the corresponding lease on 7 June 1989.

Finally, the Bodmin & Wenford Railway received on 31 August 1989 with the Light Railway Order their operating license. Gradually you now made ​​by appropriate construction, the route roadworthy. Thus, the scheduled time of operation was recorded on the route from Bodmin General on the 1990 newly built breakpoint Colesloggett stop to Bodmin Parkway on June 17, 1990. The reopening of the line to Boscarne Junction until 1996 in its entirety. Since then, the museum trains run regularly from Bodmin General alternately to the two endpoints of the segment.

Fleet

Steam locomotives

  • GWR 2-8 -0T No. 4247
  • GWR 4575 Class 2 -6- 2T No. 5552
  • GWR Pannier Class 0 -6- 0T No. 4612
  • GWR Pannier Class 0 -6- 0T No. 6435
  • Beattie 2-4 - 0WT No. 30587
  • Bagnall 0-4 - 0ST No 2962, " No. 19"
  • Bagnall 0-4 - 0ST No. 3058, "Alfred"
  • Bagnall 0-4 - 0ST No 2572, " Judy "
  • Bagnall 0-6 J94 - 0ST No 2766
  • Bagnall 0-4-0 Fireless No. 3121
  • LSWR T9 No. 120

Diesel locomotives

  • BR Class 50 Co-Co diesel No. 50042 / D442, "Triumph"
  • BR Class 47 Co-Co diesel No. 47306
  • BR Class 37 Co-Co diesel No. 37142
  • BR Class 33 Diesel No. 33110 / D6527
  • BR Class 08 Diesel No. 08444 / D3559
  • BR Class 10 Diesel No. D3452
  • Ruston Hornsby diesel 4W DM No. 443 642, " Lec "
  • Fowler 0-4 0DM - diesel No. 22928, "Peter"

DMUs

  • DMU No. M51947 108DMBS
  • DMU No. M50980 108DMBS
  • DMU No. M52054 108DMCL
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