The passenger route joining the Truro side of Cornwall’s main line to Newquay through St Agnes and Perranporth.
The Chacewater–Newquay route opened to Perranporth in 1903 and through to Newquay in 1905. It connected coastal communities with the main line west of Truro. Its withdrawal in February 1963 preceded the publication of the Beeching Report. It was a different project from the unbuilt 1860s Holywell railway and harbour proposal.
Sources
https://www.cornwallrailwaysociety.org.uk/chacewater-to-newquay-branch.html
Connected subjects
- Blackwater and Chacewater junctions
- Cocks Viaduct
- Chacewater railway station
- Goonbell Halt
- Goonhavern Halt
- Mithian Halt
- Perranporth Beach Halt
- Shepherds Junction
- St Agnes, Cornwall
- Trewerry Viaduct
- Wheal Liberty / Goonbell Viaduct
- Chacewater
- Mitchell & Newlyn Halt
- Mount Hawke Halt
- Tolcarn Junction
- Trewerry & Trerice Halt
- Watergate Bay
- Shepherds railway station
- Perranporth railway station
- Truro
- Newquay railway station
- St Agnes railway station
- Great Western Railway, historical company
- Newquay
- Perranporth
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Perranporth once sat on a railway between Chacewater and Newquay. The line has gone, but its route still shapes paths, bridges and memory.
- The Railway to Holywell Bay That Never Was
I grew up walking this coast with a surfboard. A Victorian railway and harbour scheme makes me wonder whether I might have caught the train instead—and what would have been waiting when I got there.
- Cornwall Had More Railways. Did That Mean Better Transport?
Cornwall’s lost railway map is persuasive. But coverage, speed and the ability to get home are different things—and the timetable does not always agree with the nostalgia.