Now trains are swapped for trucks and it’s part of Imerys’ Haul Road.
It was bored through granite working from both ends and from 5 shafts along its course using charges of dynamite set by Cornish miners. The removal of spoil was done by Irish navvies using wheelbarrows.
A great many accidents occurred during the construction, three miners were injured boring No. 2 shaft, when one of the charges went off prematurely.
After closure in 1968, the trackbed was converted to a road used by lorries loaded with china clay to reach Fowey Docks.
Imerys very kindly give permission for the use of the Haul Road for pleasure and curiosity trips using the Fowey Town Train! (a landrover pulling a covered carriage with open sides)!
St Blazey, Par, Cornwall PL24, UK
Now trains are swapped for trucks and it’s part of Imerys’ Haul Road.
It was bored through granite working from both ends and from 5 shafts along its course using charges of dynamite set by Cornish miners. The removal of spoil was done by Irish navvies using wheelbarrows.
A great many accidents occurred during the construction, three miners were injured boring No. 2 shaft, when one of the charges went off prematurely.
After closure in 1968, the trackbed was converted to a road used by lorries loaded with china clay to reach Fowey Docks.
Imerys very kindly give permission for the use of the Haul Road for pleasure and curiosity trips using the Fowey Town Train! (a landrover pulling a covered carriage with open sides)!
St Blazey, Par, Cornwall PL24, UK