Clay for Export
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Clay for Export
Image: © roger geach Taken: 13 Jul 1976
The morning clay for export departs from Lostwithiel and heads down the Fowey branch. At Carne Point (Fowey) the wooden trucks will be emptied into a waiting ship. This was one of about a handful of daily trips down the branch that day. The amount of clay moving would depend on the number of ships that were in Port. These wooden vacuum brake wagons, known as hoods, were all withdrawn in the 80s and replaced by air-braked wagons type Cda.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.397689
Longitude
-4.665855