| Title | : | The Redruth and Chasewater Railway, 1824-1915 |
| Author | : | D.B. Barton |
| Language | : | en |
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Subtitled “ a pictorial excursion’, this traces the route and remains along the nine and a half mile route of cornwall’s first true railway, the four foot gauge ‘redruth and chasewater railway’. Starting from the river port of devoran, this ran to a number of mines and the town of redruth. From its opening in 1825 until 1852 the line was horse worked, but two 0-4-0 steam locomotives were purchased in that year and a third followed in 1859.
The redruth and chasewater railway, 1824-1915, was constructed to carry mineral ore to the port of devoran from the mining hinterland and was horse drawn until 1854, when steam locomotives were introduced.
This line was called the redruth and chasewater railway and opened in 1824. It extended eventually to wheal buller and redruth via carharrack and lanner,.
4km) trail which is based for the most part on the route of the original.
It opened in 1825 and was built to convey the output from copper mines in the gwennap area to wharves on restronguet creek around devoran, and to bring in coal to fuel mine engines; later it carried timber for pit props and also house coal. A little over 9 miles long, it was built to a 4 ft narrow gauge and used horse traction at first, later using steam locomotives.
Redruth and chasewater railway company incorporated on 17th june 1824. A 9 mile line in narrow (4ft) gauge, built to carry minerals such as copper and coal to and from the cornish towns.
A first edition copy with no ownership marks of any kind in the book.
Authorised by act of parliament in 1824, the redruth and chasewater railway opened on january 30th 1826, running from the gwennap copper mines to the south coast port of devoran, with a branch line to service the mines of redruth. The 4ft gauge line carried minerals and goods only and generally worked profitably.
Eric rabjohns, with a foreword by michael messenger sb, 94 pages, the book takes us on a journey along the course of this mineral railway, serving the great copper mines of gwennap, as well as wheal buller and the basset mines plus the river port of devoran. It was horse drawn from 1827 with crude steam locos from 1854.
Sweeping north to south the cornish coastline route runs parallel to both the portreath tramroad and the redruth and chasewater line. It links portreath harbour, historically a key transport link for the area’s mining industry, with the more tranquil devoran, passing through heath land, wooded areas and old mining sites that – incredibly – once employed 50,000 people!.
In the early years of the nineteenth century large amounts of minerals from the mines in west cornwall were being carried by horse to the coast to be loaded onto ships. Due to the increasing quantities of minerals and the poor state of the trackways, a railway to link the mines around gwennap, cornwall with the coast near devoran was authorised on 17 june 1824.
The act of parliament authorising the new mineral railway received royal assent on the 17th june 1824.
The redruth and chasewater railway, 1824-1915: a history of the cornish mineral railway and port which served the great gwennap copper mines paperback.
The book takes us on a journey along the course of this mineral railway, serving the great copper mines of gwennap, as well as wheal buller and the basset mines plus the river port of devoran. It was horse drawn from 1827 with crude steam locos from 1854.
24 jul 2013 the first mineral tramway was the poldice plateway (or tramroad), begun in 1809.
1 sep 2015 passed on to me an old railway magazine of november 1936 with a fabulous short article on the redruth and chasewater railway, which.
The redruth and chasewater railway: a pictorial excursion, upalong and the book takes us on a journey along the course of this mineral railway, serving.
The redruth and chasewater railway, an early industrial line which served the many mines a few miles to the north, terminated at the port (although there was an extension to wharves at point on which trains were hauled by horses rather than locomotives).
Started in 1824, this railway also served the mines of gwennap and redruth, running south to the coastal river port of devoran.
Built in 1824 from redruth down to tide-water at devoran on the fal estuary. This pioneer cornish line was horse-worked a comprehensive and detailed history of this highly individual little-known 4-ft. Gauge cornish mineral railway and of the mines it was built to serve in the great gwennap-redruth copper mining area.
The redruth and chasewater railway, an early industrial line which served the many mines a few miles to the north, terminated at the port (although there was an extension to wharves at point on which trains were hauled by horses rather than locomotives). Today, this long-disused railway forms part of a coast-to-coast footpath and cycle route.
The hayle railway opened a station on the west side of redruth on 31 may 1838. The railway had been built to move goods to and from local mines and the harbours at hayle and portreath a passenger service started on 26 may 1843; nearly 200 people travelled on the first train from redruth to hayle.
16 aug 2019 1824 the redruth and chasewater mineral tramway opened, initially horse- drawn.
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