Trainspotting Traditional Cache
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The cache is placed on the road that runs beside The Bodmin and Wenford Railway line. This is a good spot for catching the trains as they run into Bodmin Parkway and provides a good photo opportunity for the enthusiastic train spotters. This branch line was opened on 27th May 1887 running from Bodmin Road Station (Bodmin Parkway) into Bodmin General. The branch line from Bodmin North to Wadebridge had been opened in 1834. This is the line that runs past Dunmere Halt and would have terminated past Bodmin Goal in what is now a car park between Dennison Road and Berrycombe Road. In 1888 the two branch lines were connected by running a line from Bodmin General to Boscarne Junction. From here the line also ran all the way out to the Clay Dryers at Wenford. The line closed on 3 October 1983 following the demise of freight traffic from Wenford. In 1984 the Bodmin Railway Preservation Society was formed, and they held their first open day at Bodmin General two years later. 1987 saw the Cornish Steam Locomotive Society move their equipment from Bugle to Bodmin. A Light Railway Order was granted in 1989, and the following year passenger services recommenced between Bodmin General and Bodmin Road, although by now that station had been renamed "Bodmin Parkway". A new intermediate station known as Colesloggett Halt was brought into use. In 1996 the former junction line was also reopened, with another new station provided as Boscarne Juntion. The remaining railway bed had been transformed over the years to create The Camel Trail . Congratulations to nialls01 on FTF, I think that must be a record.
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