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Wadebridge railway station (Cornish: Ponswad) was a railway station that served the town of Wadebridge in Cornwall, England. It was on the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway . It opened in 1834 to transport goods between Wadebridge , the limit of navigation on the River Camel , and inland farming and mining areas.
Yet another act of Parliament was required, the South-western Railway Act 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. cxxi), to permit extension of time for these works, which still included the substantial easing of the sharp curves at Grogley and Dunmere, and substantial improvement of the whole of the section from Boscarne Junction to Bodmin (B&WR station), and ...
The station was renamed Bodmin North in 1949 to differentiate it from Bodmin General. Freight facilities were withdrawn on 24 July 1964 although by this time the lines to the cattle dock had already been lifted on 10 May 1964 [1] and those to the Gas Works on 20 February 1964. [1] The station and all facilities closed on 30 January 1967.
Wadebridge was served by a railway station between 1834 and 1967; part of the line now forms the Camel Trail, a recreational route for walkers, cyclists and horse riders. The town used to be a road traffic bottleneck on the A39 road until it was bypassed in 1991, and the main shopping street, Molesworth Street, is now pedestrianised.
This had opened a line from its own Bodmin station to Wadebridge in 1834, although by 1888 it was operated by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR). [1] This gave Wadebridge access to the main line for the first time as the LSWR's own route from Exeter through Launceston did not open until 1895. [2]
The Great Western Railway (GWR) already had a station at Launceston, opened in 1865, and the North Cornwall Railway station was built adjacent to it. At Wadebridge, the line joined with the Bodmin and Wadebridge line; the original station had been expanded when the GWR line from Bodmin was opened in 1888.
The CR station at Truro opened in 1859 (Photographed in 1892) Early transport in Cornwall relied on coastal shipping so the first rail tracks were laid to connect the hinterland with harbours. [ 1 ] The first line to carry passengers was the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway (B&WR) on 4 July 1834.
Wenford Bridge was the terminus of a former railway line from Wadebridge that was originally built by the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway in 1834. The line was built in order to facilitate the transport of sea sand for agricultural use from the estuary of the Camel to the local farms, and never carried passengers.