Here we have that special picture I promised you.
The actual signal from the Chacewater to Newquay line in someone's garden between Wheal Butson and Barkla's Shop, which I imagine was sited either at St.Agnes or Perranporth Station's.

For some reason it looks like the blade has been removed, but I will pop in and get a better pic when I am passing, and more pics of the line as I progress towards Goonhavern.

Manxie,
          I'm only modelling the section from Liskey Hill bridge to just after Bollingey.basically just Perranporth Station and its approaches.
          These pictures you're posting really are something.I'd love a souvenir of the line like that signal:roll: When items like that come up for sale though its usually silly money.
          This is getting to be a bit like railway archeology…..

Cheers,John.B.:thumbs

I had a wander around  Goonhavern, Shepherds, Treamble and Perranporth today. The station approach at Perranporth passes between what I assume to be the remains of the bridge under the north end of the station. However, the southern wall appeared to be unbroken, with no sign of ever having had a set of subway steps leading to the platform.

So how/where did the subway emerge ?

[user=465]Stubby47[/user] wrote:

I had a wander around  Goonhavern, Shepherds, Treamble and Perranporth today. The station approach at Perranporth passes between what I assume to be the remains of the bridge under the north end of the station. However, the southern wall appeared to be unbroken, with no sign of ever having had a set of subway steps leading to the platform.

So how/where did the subway emerge ?

Trevor Miners told me on the phone the other evening where the steps leading up to the station were. Next time I am down Perran I will have a look.

Stu,
Does this diagram help??

                              
The subway is just about 15-20 yards from where you were stood at the bridge.It was the station carpark.There's a business there now.Try looking at the google map and compare it to this.

Cheers,John.B.:thumbs
                                                        

Aha, tis all clear now.

From your map, I stood between the red lines, but the subway was between the blue ones.




Thanks

Hoping to get out this weekend and take some more pics including the Chacewater Triangle of how it looks today.

Excellent work you lot… Such pictures and stories are invaluable, especially to a poor expat who can't believe how quickly everything gets overgrown.

Here are pics of the Chacewater Triangle as it is today.

In this pic I am standing on the western side of the Triangle with my back to the A30 which has cut part of the triangle off. On the other side of the A30 is the main Truro to Penzance line where the triangle joined into.

This is where trains coming up from Penzance could branch off to Newquay.


Here I am looking in on the western side at the top of the enbankment. You can just make out where the track was.


Looking in on the triangle. It is all overgrown now. When I remember it as a young boy, there was hardly any vegetation, just barren land with a bit of gorse.



This shows the eastern side of the triangle that served Chacewater and Truro.

                                                         And here we have the eastern track taken from the side of the A30. You can see the height of the triangle above the wooden fence and how it goes away following the line of trees towards Newquay.

Today I took nearly 70 pics from Mithian to Cocks, which is on the Newquay side of Bolingey.

I will load them a few at a time. There are some cracking shots of bridges,the track, the Perranporth Subway, and a hidden viaduct, and some very special shots of the Wheal Liberty Viaduct.

All will be revealed over the coming days.

Watch this space.

Watching.

Moving on from the next bridge on from Mithian Halt, before I went back to the Chacewater Triangle, the next bridge on the way to Perranporth, is at Burnthouse. As you can see it is down a very narrow country road. Perranporth is to the right

As you cas see nature has taken it's course on top of the bridge.


Next bridge on is what I would call Perrancombe Bridge.
This bridge is about half a mile from where Perranporth Beach Halt used to be. Perranporth is to the left.

Both sides of the bridge is dense undergrowth

This is the Perrancombe Enbankment, about half a mile from the Perrancombe Bridge, which is now a public walk as far as the Perranporth Beach Halt Bridge

Pic of how high the enbankment is to the road.


Standing on the enbankment track bed, looking towards the Beach Halt It's hard to believe that trains once ran along here.



Beach Halt bridge in the distance.




End of the walk. Beach Halt Bridge wall.


What's left of Beach Halt Bridge.



Plaque on bridge for start of walk.


Other side of the road where the other half of the bridge once stood and the Beach Halt.

Superb stuff Manxie! Keep 'em coming mate!
:pathead
Cheers,John.B.:thumbs

There seems to be a lot of people logging in to this thread, following how my pictorial journey unfolds tracing the old line from Goonbell to Goonhavern.

Manxie,
Its great for me that you're doing this,because I live so far away from the line that I'm modelling,and Stu is also building his Shepherds layout,and this has given me a boost to get cracking on Perranporth.

  As I'm currently working on the subway at Perranporth,can you remember if the stairs went down in one single straight drop,or was there a middle level section half way down???
  Also,were the floor tiles brown,and do you remember any posters on the subway wall??

Cheers,John.B.:thumbs

I've been given permission from Middleton Press to use some of the images from the relevant books to illustrate my threads, provided I give suitable credit to the copyright owner.
This has also spurred me on to actually start construction, probably with the halt platform & wating room. As Perranport Beach Halt platform is actually now at Falmouth Town halt, a visit there to measure & photograph is also on the cards.

[user=201]georgejacksongenius[/user] wrote:

Manxie,
As I'm currently working on the subway at Perranporth,can you remember if the stairs went down in one single straight drop,or was there a middle level section half way down???
  Also,were the floor tiles brown,and do you remember any posters on the subway wall??

Cheers,John.B.:thumbs

As far as I can remember, bearing in mind it was approx 50 years ago plus since I went with my mother to Perranporth on the train, that from ground level (carpark) the subway went in a few yards and then sharp left up the steps to the centre platform, but I will double check with Trevor Minors if there was a middle section.

As for the floor tiles I can't remember, but the walls and the ceiling were definatly white tiles.

I will ask Trevor if he can remember the colour of the floor tiles, if they were tiles.

Can't remember any posters on the walls, just the white tiles.

Picture of the subway entrance coming soon, after the pic of the bridge on Liskey Hill, just before Perranporth Station.

All this suspense.

Really looking forward to these next few piccies mate.The Liskey hill bridge I do have some reference of from above,but not from track level.Lovely stuff lads!!!

Cheers,John.B.:thumbs