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

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

Wow John :shock::shock::shock: I wonder who you know up there …………:roll::roll:   Are we still allowed to call you "John" ?

I have not got pics from track level as you can see from the pictures.

This pic shows Liskey Hill Bridge on the Chacewater side. Beach Halt was about 200 yds back from this bridge.
The bridge is also off set from the road, so the track ran under at an angle. The Perranporth side of the bridge is higher than the Beach Halt side.


This Pic is looking over the bridge back towards the Beach Halt.


This is Liskey Hill Bridge on the Perranporth Station side towards Newquay.


Looking over the bridge which is now a house and garden.


Perranporth Station and the subway next stop.

Here we are at Station Road, Perranporth.

Ahead is the remains of Perranporth Stn Bridge.Go up round the corner and the road comes onto the same level as the now disappeared station.


Industrial units where the station once stood.


This pic shows the road going off to the left before the bridge that would take you into the station carpark and the subway entrance to the station.

The subway entrance is just out of view around the corner on the right behind the car by the factory unit.


These 2 pics show all that remains of Perranporth Station.
This is the blocked up entrance to the subway station steps.

I wonder If the steps and white tiles are still behind the blocks.

Having spoken to Trevor Miners, the subway steps to the station platform were at right angles on the left just inside the entrance, and went up about 20 steps in a straight line with no wider step half way up, where one could take a breather if necessary.

To the right of the subway looking back down from the platform there was an outside wooden ramp where heavy luggage was slid down to the waiting transport in the car park by the subway entrance.

Manxie,
          You're an absolute star,and please pass on my thanks to Trevor for the info.I can confidently crack on with this area on the layout now!!!
  Nice one mate.
:pathead:Happy
Cheers,John.B.:thumbs

I ain't finished yet.

Next bridge on from Perranporth Station is Bolingey Bridge.
This pic is taken with Perranporth Stn to the right.


Here I am up on top of Bolingey Bridge standing on the old track looking back towards Perranporth Stn.
It's all over growen now with just a small pathway for about 25 yards which you can see which I used to get up on the bridge.


Cocks Bridge next, about half a mile further on, and the hidden viaduct.

Sorry to disappoint you, but Cocks Bridge has been completely taken taken away.
There is nothing left, apart from a bit of what I think is the lower part of the bridge in the hedge which borders on to a property that has been built behind the hedge on the old line towards Goonhavern.

Possibly part of the Cocks Bridge.


This is quite interesting.
I am now walking down a public footpath in Cocks towards Goonhavern, and as you can see it runs beside the old line. Giveaway are the original wooden British Rail fence posts which run beside the line on top of the small enbankment on the left.


Now standing on the old line.

And another shot further on. It's hard to believe that trains once ran through here.


Saw this on on one of the fence posts. does it mean anything?


and

a few red bricks. Possibly from an old ganger's hut?


I have walked about 150 yds on the enbankment, and as you can see it is getting quite thick with overgrown trees etc. The hidden viaduct is about another 100 yds further on, but I can't get through, and will have to get back on the footpath to see it.


Looking back along the footpath.
Wooden rail posts covered in ivy.


Hidden viaduct next.

That's such a sad sight.   When you think of all the guys who built that embankment and the excitement for the locals when a train came along.  All those memories will soon be gone forever. :sad:

I wonder why they didn't put the footpath along the old trackbed ? :roll:

Manxie,
          I think the sign might have been an old gradient marker,but I'm not 100%.
Lovely pictures though.really enjoying this walk with you.
   Here's a new picture I have of Perranporth taken in the last few years of the line;

Nice picture of the train heading off in the direction of Newquay.
Nice to see the old signal box which I went up in as a lad.

Falmouth Town railway station - Wikipedia

The Hidden Viaduct.

This viaduct is in the woods near Cocks.
 It is very difficult to get a good pics because of the trees etc.


This is the viaduct number.


More pics of viaduct at different angles.










That's all for now until I can do the last bit up to Goonhavern.

No excuses now for building your layouts.

Is it just me, but I can't see the images from the previous post…

Stu

No problem here, Stu.

Interesting thread and pictures.

Manxie,
          Superb.These are the only pictures I've ever seen of this viaduct.How many arches are there? Is it as big as the one at Goonbarrow?
          It makes me want to have a root around down there myself next time I'm in God's county!!

Cheers,John.B.:thumbs

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

Is it just me, but I can't see the images from the previous post…

Stu

Ah, they are now visible.
I need to go and find this viaduct, it can't be more than a few miles from my house and I've never known about it…

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

Manxie,
          Superb.These are the only pictures I've ever seen of this viaduct.How many arches are there? Is it as big as the one at Goonbarrow?
        

I believe it has 3 or 4 arches. Its hard to see because of the undergrowth and trees.

I don't exactly know where Goonbarrow Viaduct is.

The only viaduct I am familiar with is Wheal Liberty Viaduct at Wheal Butson. Some call it Goonbell Viaduct.

I have some unique pics of the Wheal Liberty Viaduct coming soon.

I walked across the Cocks viaduct with a troop of Cub Scouts back in the early '80's long before it became overgrown. It was in good condition then and safe to walk on.

Stubby - to find it you need to go to Cocks and walk along Cally Lane towards Perranwel where you come out onto the Newquay-Chiverton X road by one of Colin Carter's egg producing units.

Derek

Manxie,
         Sorry,my bad,I meant Goonbell……………….Doh!:roll: Senior Moment.

Cheers,John.B.:thumbs

[user=364]Super D[/user] wrote:

I walked across the Cocks viaduct with a troop of Cub Scouts back in the early '80's long before it became overgrown. It was in good condition then and safe to walk on.

Stubby - to find it you need to go to Cocks and walk along Cally Lane towards Perranwel where you come out onto the Newquay-Chiverton X road by one of Colin Carter's egg producing units.

Derek

The way I got to the Cocks Viaduct is I parked the car at Cocks by the lane that goes back towards Bolingey where the now gone railway bridge crossed the road.

On the opposite side of the road there is a public footpath that run in beside a house. Follow this path alongside the old line where I took the pics for about 350 yds, when you will come to a gate/stile. Turn immediatly left after the gate/stile, go down the path for about 100yds. That is where the hidden viaduct is. You don't go as far as the main Chivvey to Newquay Road.