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St. Johns Terrace, TRURO, TR3 6NE

Just down Quay Road from the Village Hall are the old offices of the Redruth and Chasewater Railway Company and the shed where the spare locomotive was kept, seen here, both now forming a private residence. This is private property and there is no access.

Quay Road, Devoran is the original route of the Chacewater and Redruth Railway do the Devoran wharves. It was later by-passed by a line, behind these houses, which ran to Point Quay. I was taken by the way that this lawn is protected by granite sleeper blocks from the old railway. They are distinctive by virtue of their twin peg holes for spiking down the chairs which held the rails. See also Image

At this point on Quay Road, part of the grass verge has been cleared away to expose the cobbled surface of the original roadway.

The former Primary School at Devoran, founded in 1846, is at the top of Market Street, opposite the village church, and incorporates the adjacent former Market House.

This is a new looking house and although I think I can identify it on the aerial view it is not on Streetview. The launch is a modern replica of a c1890 gentleman's steam launch with a 4.2 horsepower single cylinder engine. It was formally commissioned in 2014. It would be very nice to see it under way on the local waters. Photographed from the public road outside the property.

Looking west back down the line of Quay Road towards the village centre. Various spurs and sidings of the Redruth and Chasewater Railway (1824 to 1915) ran off to the left of the road to service a range of wharves and warehouses.

The road ahead along Carclew Terrace once carried the upper branch of the Redruth and Chasewater Railway as a horse-drawn tramway to the old terminus at Point Quay. To the right, the village hall car park and beyond this the hall itself, formerly the railway workshops.

As it entered Devoran from the north-west, the Redruth and Chasewater Railway split into three near the village centre. The upper route followed the line of Carclew Terrace and emerged here to continue along what is now called Old Tram Road, running behind the photographer's position as a horse-drawn tramway towards the old terminus at Point. Although the railway closed in 1915 and the rails were taken up in 1919, the road surface was not made up until 1951.