Community Railway Lines in the United Kingdom - Looe Valley Line, Maritime Line, Atlantic Coast Line, Cornwall, Island Line, Isle of Wight (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Looe Valley Line, Maritime Line, Atlantic Coast Line, Cornwall, Island Line, Isle of Wight, St Ives Bay Line, Penistone Line, Esk Valley Line, Norfolk Orbital Railway, Abbey Line, Community rail, Medway Valley Line, Tamar Valley Line, Tarka Line, Bittern Line, Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership, Derwent Valley Line, Poacher Line, Marston Vale Line, Gainsborough Line, Ribble Valley Line, Wherry Lines, East Lancashire Line, Barton Line. Excerpt: The Looe Valley Line is an 8.75 miles (14 km) community railway from Liskeard to Looe in Cornwall, United Kingdom, that follows the valley of the East Looe River for much of its course. It is operated by First Great Western. The Looe Valley Line was opened as the Liskeard and Looe Railway on 27 December 1860 from a station at Moorswater, a little west of Liskeard, to the quayside at Looe, replacing the earlier Liskeard and Looe Union Canal. At Moorswater it connected with the Liskeard and Caradon Railway which conveyed granite from quarries on Bodmin Moor. Passenger services commenced on 11 September 1879, but the Moorswater terminus was inconvenient as it was remote from Liskeard and a long way from the Cornwall Railway station on the south side of the town. On 15 May 1901 the railway opened a curving link line from Coombe Junction, a little south of Moorswater, to the now Great Western Railway station at Liskeard. The section from Coombe Junction to Moorswater was closed to passenger traffic on the same day but passenger numbers tripled. The new connecting line had to climb a considerable vertical interval to reach the Cornish Main Line which passed above Moorswater on a 147 feet (45m) high viaduct. The Liskeard and Looe Railway was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1909 and the attractive seaside resort of Looe became heavily promoted as a holiday destination in r...