Caradon and Liskeard railway Traditional Cache
Caradon and Liskeard railway
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From the Minions carpark N50 30.823' W004 27.331'you will need to negotiate some styles.Generally a good track but can be muddy in wet weather.
This cache is placed on the old Caradon and Liskeard railway, and some of the old stone rail mountings can still be seen.
The liskeard and Cardon Railway was built to carry Copper and Granite from the Caradon hill area down to the Canal basin of the Liskeard and Union canal. It existed as the result of the amazing success of the South Caradon mine and in return enabled that mine to grow by providing transport for its thousands of tons of ore.The railways fate was sealed with the closure of South Caradon and it carried little traffic after the collapse of Caradon's mining industry in 1882.
The line finished its days under the control of the GWR who lifted the rails in 1917.
Before the 1860's the railway was gravity worked with horses pulling the wagons up the gradient from Moorswater and the loaded trucks running back downhill. Its first steam engine was obtained in 1861 and from 1862 the line was jointly operated with the LLUC railway to provide a through service from Bodmin moor to the Sea at Looe.
In addition to the original main line several extensions and branches existed serving the industries around Caradon hill. The addition of the Kilmar junction railway in 1877 to bypass Gonamena Incline has left an unusual feature of a circular trackbed running all the way around Caradon hill. A feature normally only seen on the boards of model railways.
Today much of the trackbed lies clearly visible on the open ground of Bodmin moor and the section from Crows Nest Village to Minions forms part of a public footpath. Unfortunately little remains to be seen of the route from the moors to Liskeard.
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