Bodmin North Station, 1964
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Bodmin North Station, 1964 by Alan Murray-Rust as part of the Geograph project.
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Bodmin North Station, 1964
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: Unknown
This was the terminus of the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway, opened in 1834, and therefore preceding the main line railways that eventually reached Wadebridge (LSWR, late Southern Railway) and Bodmin Road (GWR) with a separate branch to the town. As a result it remained a backwater with a low level of passenger numbers. It was one of the branches selected in the 1960s for operation with 4-wheel railbuses of the type seen here, but these were short lived, the line succumbing to the Beeching cuts in January 1967. Even the subsequent Bodmin and Wenford Railway, a heritage line, uses the former GWR station. The station has disappeared without trace. This view https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3376293 is taken from almost the exact spot as mine. The house with the cream gable can be glimpsed under the station canopy.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.473006
Longitude
-4.722806