This post results from reading Issue No. 30 of the "Railway Archive" Journal. It contains an article about the locomotives originally purchased for the Cornwall Minerals Railway. That company dramatically over-ordered motive power and when its lease was taken over by the GWR, 50% of its original order were returned to the manufacturer Sharp, Stewart of Manchester.
Eight if these locomotives found their way to the Lynn & Fakenham Railway and eventually onto the books of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway.
This first post about the Cornwall Minerals Railway highlights these locomotives. ...
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/05/17/th ... way-part-1
The Cornwall Minerals Railway
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Re: The Cornwall Minerals Railway
A perfect article for my proposed layout area. Thanks Roger.
Just as a side note, FOWEY is pronounced "FOY". I always thought that was weird.
I do hope you make it down there this year. It's such a beautiful county of contrasts.
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Just as a side note, FOWEY is pronounced "FOY". I always thought that was weird.
I do hope you make it down there this year. It's such a beautiful county of contrasts.
Thanks
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Re: The Cornwall Minerals Railway
My sister lives amongst the industrial detritus of the mining landscape on Bodmin Moor, with its derelict industrial buildings, grossly polluting spoil heaps and interesting remnants of railway infrastructure, some of which was recycled into the structure of her home. We'd be there right now had our plans not been derailed by a bug in the system. Sigh.