Railway Companies Disestablished in 1892 - Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway, Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax River Railway (Paperback)

Chapters: Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway, Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax River Railway, Gorseddau Junction and Portmadoc Railway, Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway, Portland and Willamette Valley Railway, Empire and Dublin Railroad, Carson and Colorado Railroad, Central New England and Western Railroad, Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway, Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw Railroad, Cincinnati and Michigan Railroad, Florida Coast and Gulf Railway, Smithtown and Port Jefferson Railroad, Pasadena Railway, St. Louis, Alton and Springfield Railroad. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 78. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway opened in 1869 as a in (2,140 mm) broad gauge railway and links the port of Fowey in Cornwall with the Cornish Main Line at Lostwithiel. Its main traffic has always been china clay. An independent company began negotiations with the Cornwall Railway in 1861 with an aim to build a branch line from that railway at Lostwithiel to deep water at Fowey. The route would run alongside the River Fowey and so would have gentle gradients and few engineering problems apart from some bridges across small tributary rivers, and new quays at Carne Point, just outside Fowey. An Act of Parliament was obtained on 30 June 1862 and the line was opened on 1 June 1869. There were close links with the Newquay and Cornwall Junction Railway; some directors and officers served both companies, and offices were in a shared building at Par. The opening of a rival route from Par by the Cornwall Minerals Railway on 1 June 1874 led to a price war. The Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway suspended traffic from 1 January 1880. The line was leased to the Cornwall Railway for use as storage sidings but traffic never resumed, despite several attempts to attrac...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=394307