Every time I travel on the train between St Austell and Truro I am
always taken by how it secretly travels through the countryside. I
live in a rural corner of Mid Cornwall about 2 miles from the track
and on quiet evenings I can occasionally hear the distant rumble of
the trains.
This little series of caches takes you to some of the surprising
and impressive corners of Cornwall where the main line sneaks
through, under and over some very pretty countryside.
This cache is a small click lock box containing a few small
swaps.
The cache is too small for a pen, please bring your own.
As you climb out of the valley the hidden railway snakes around
the opposite hillside beneath the remains of an iron age hill fort.
It re-crosses the valley on a serious viaduct – a viaduct on
steroids – it is said to have ten great arches.
(Couldn’t count the full number because of tree cover). The
present viaduct was built in 1886 to replace the original Brunel
Viaduct. You can still see some of the original Brunel viaduct
columns which were then topped with timber arches/trestles.
For more information take a look at the link Cornish Railway Viaducts
One can only guess how many millions of man hours and tons of
granite it took to build this enormous structure tucked away in a
remote Cornish valley.
This is a cache and dash – parking alongside the cache
site.