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Angarrack
Angarrack (An Garrek) is a village, in west Cornwall, England, UK.
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Avonside Engine Company
The Avonside Engine Company was a locomotive manufacturer in Avon Street, St. Philip's, Bristol, England between 1864 and 1934.
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Barlow rail
Barlow rail was a rolled rail section used on early railways.
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Bristol and Exeter Railway
The Bristol & Exeter Railway (B&ER) was an English railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter.
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British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitised archives of British newspapers.
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British Rail
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.
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Broad-gauge railway
A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge broader than the standard-gauge railways.
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Camborne railway station
Camborne railway station serves the town of Camborne, Cornwall, England.
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Ceres
Ceres most commonly refers to.
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Cornish Main Line
The Cornish Main Line is a railway line in Cornwall in the United Kingdom.
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Cornwall
Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.
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Cornwall Railway
The Cornwall Railway was a broad gauge railway from Plymouth in Devon to Falmouth in Cornwall, England, built in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Disused railway stations on the Cornish Main Line
There are seventeen disused railway stations on the Cornish Main Line between Plymouth in Devon and Penzance in Cornwall, England.
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Dual gauge
A dual gauge railway is a track that allows the passage of trains of two different track gauges.
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Falmouth, Cornwall
Falmouth (Aberfala) is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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George Samuel Measom
Sir George Samuel Measom (1818-1901) was an English engraver and publisher who compiled guides to railway travel in Great Britain in the mid-19th century.
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Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.
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Hayle
Hayle (Heyl, "estuary") is a small town, civil parish and cargo port in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Hayle Railway
The Hayle Railway was an early railway in West Cornwall, constructed to convey copper and tin ore from the Redruth and Camborne areas to sea ports at Hayle and Portreath.
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Hayle railway station
Hayle railway station serves the small town of Hayle, Cornwall, United Kingdom.
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Helston Railway
| The Helston Railway is a heritage railway in Cornwall which aims to rebuild and preserve as much as possible of the former GWR Helston Railway between Nancegollen and Water-Ma-Trout on the outskirts of Helston.
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Inclined plane
An inclined plane, also known as a ramp, is a flat supporting surface tilted at an angle, with one end higher than the other, used as an aid for raising or lowering a load.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".
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Llynvi and Ogmore Railway
In 1861 the Llynvi Valley Railway was opened in Glamorganshire, Wales, to convey mineral products to the Bristol Channel at Porthcawl.
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London and North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.
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Penponds
Penponds (Pennpons) is a village west of Camborne, in west Cornwall, UK.
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Penzance
Penzance (Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, in England, United Kingdom.
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Penzance railway station
Penzance railway station serves the town of Penzance in west Cornwall, England.
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Plymouth
Plymouth is a city situated on the south coast of Devon, England, approximately south-west of Exeter and west-south-west of London.
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Railway Mania
Railway Mania was an instance of speculative frenzy in Britain in the 1840s.
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Redruth
Redruth (Resrudh) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Redruth railway station
Redruth Station serves the town of Redruth, Cornwall, United Kingdom, and is situated on the Cornish Main Line between Truro and Camborne.
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River Fal
The River Fal (Dowr Fala) flows through Cornwall, England, rising at Pentevale on Goss Moor (between St. Columb and Roche) and reaching the English Channel at Falmouth.
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Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson FRS (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an early railway and civil engineer.
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South Devon Railway Company
The South Devon Railway Company built and operated the railway from Exeter to Plymouth and Torquay in Devon, England.
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South Devon Railway Gorgon class
The Gorgon class were six 4-4-0 saddle tank broad gauge locomotives operated on the South Devon Railway, Cornwall Railway and West Cornwall Railway.
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South Devon Railway locomotives
South Devon Railway locomotives were broad gauge locomotives that operated over the South Devon Railway, Cornwall Railway, and West Cornwall Railway in England.
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South Devon Railway Remus class
The two Remus class locomotives were 0-6-0 saddle tank broad gauge locomotives operated by the South Devon Railway, England.
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St Erth railway station
St Erth railway station is a Grade II listed station situated at Rose-an-Grouse in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
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St Ives Bay Line
The St Ives Bay Line is a railway line from to in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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The National Archives (United Kingdom)
The National Archives (TNA) is a non-ministerial government department.
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Truro
Truro (Truru) is a city and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Vulcan Foundry
The Vulcan Foundry Limited was a British locomotive builder sited at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire.
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0-4-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four coupled wheels, all of which are driven.
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0-4-2
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement with no leading wheels, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles and two trailing wheels on one axle.
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0-6-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels.
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2-4-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles and no trailing wheels.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Cornwall_Railway
