The view from Moorswater Viaduct ? 1964
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The view from Moorswater Viaduct ? 1964
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust Taken: Unknown
Looking down on the small village of that name. The railway is the former Liskeard and Caradon Railway, formed initially to bring minerals and granite down to the coast for shipment, at its junction with the Liskeard and Looe Railway, itself a replacement for a canal. The railways became a single operation from 1878. Only as late as 1901 was it connected to the Great Western Railway main line, the GWR taking it over from 1909. Left of centre is the former locomotive shed (of the Liskeard & Looe Railway) with its twin arched openings. Among other work it would have looked after the locomotives operating the Liskeard to Looe branch, but by the time of this view the service had been dieselised. the prominent white cottage, can be seen one of the large limekilns that also characterised the area. This still survives and is Listed Grade II. A more recent view from roughly the same point can be seen here https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2517459 . A major change to the landscape has been the upgrading of the A38 into an express dual carriageway.
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50.450457
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