Converted to standard gauge in 1892, it continues to operate as a community railway, carrying tourists as well as local passengers. In the postwar period up until 1963, through trains operated on summer Saturdays and there were three such workings. Sugar beet was carried to the Ely beet factory and other freight included cattle, other livestock, building materials, manure, agricultural components in addition to the fruit and produce during the harvest season. In 1922 the GER was absorbed into the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER).The merger of the Eastern Counties Railway with the Eastern Union and other East Anglian railways to form the Great Eastern Railway (GER) in August 1862 caused a change in policy regarding official encouragement for local branch lines.
The St Ives Bay Line is a 4.25 miles (6.84 km) railway line from St Erth to St Ives in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.It was opened in 1877, the last new 7 ft (2,134 mm) broad gauge passenger railway to be constructed in the country. The timings remained much the same for at least the period 1955-63. The remaining track was lifted within a year of closure and much of the trackbed reverted to farmland or because of its raised position above the surrounding fenlands, as access roads. The west end of the line between St. Ives and Bluntisham which had remained open to serve the mill at Bluntisham, but this too lost its freight service from 5th October 1964. Following the final closure of the line most of the track remained in situ apart from the last few miles to St. Ives.
The dog chart is marked 23 October 1941 and the layout at that time is shown on a box diagram generated from a 1964 office copy and the scheme plan and locking sketch for the alterations in 1964.
It doesn't even have to be a real place, just look and feel like Cornwall in GWR days but the real thing is a good starting place.Now if Falmouth could be done, that would be superb...1:2500 maps for various dates available on this site for all three places:I thought Newquay might be out based on my max of 4' trains in 4mm - probably not enough for the holiday trains.
St Ives railway station: then and now A busy scene on Monday, June 15th, 1959 [pic: C J Gammell]. The section of the line from Bluntisham to Sutton was closed to all traffic in October 1958 and the tracks lifted, the line between Sutton and Ely was retained to handle dwindling sugar beet and vegetable traffic but eventually closed on 13th July 1964.
Initial passenger receipts were disappointingly low but passenger numbers eventually improved and there were a number of proposals to extend the line to the west and south of Sutton.
whilst St Ives and Helston look nice, Kingsbridge looks spot on... just have to move it the other side of the Tamar.Quaysides, ships at anchor or rolling green fields and tractors but either with plenty of Cornish GWR operational fun, dont want much eh?Can i cram a quart into a pint pot?Already have an account? St Ives station could handle 10 coaches.
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