Nancegollan railway station
Nancegollan railway station located in Nancegollan, Cornwall served an important agricultural district and also was the railhead for the fishing port of Porthleven. Originally it had a single passenger platform on the up side and a goods loop without a platform; the connections were operated by ground frame. In 1937 the facilities were considerably extended, with a full crossing facility for passenger trains and longer platforms on both lines, as well as a loop line behind the up platform and a large goods yard.[1]
In 1941 the station's goods sidings were further modified and extended in connection with airfield construction in the locality, and a new signal box with a lever frame that had been relocated from the Cornish Main Line at St Germans. A second, metal, bridge was also built at this time to carry the road over the new goods yard access lines.
Due to the line's "uncoloured" classification, heavy locomotives such as GWR Classes 43XX 2-6-0 Tender Engine and 51XX 2-6-2T Tank Engines were allowed as far as Nancegollan only.[2] Although larger locomotives did run past Nancegollan in the branch's dying days the Class 22s ran on the branch even though they were a GWR blue classification, higher than the branch line.
| Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Praze | Great Western Railway Helston Railway |
Truthall Halt | ||
The site today
Today the site of Nancegollan is an industrial estate.[3] There are plans for the Helston Railway to extend the line into Nancegollen at some point.
Gallery
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The bridge at Nancegollen is still standing. -
The site of Nancegollen station still with a lamp poking through the shrubbery -
The site of the station in 1973, nine years after it closed
References
- ^ Cornwall Railway Stations, Mike Oakley, 2009, Dovecote Press, Wimborne Minster ISBN 978-1-904-34968-6
- ^ Operation Cornwall, W S Becket, Xpress Publishing, Caernarvon, undated, ISBN 1-901056-25-2
- ^ "Google map image from the Nancegollen industrial estate". Retrieved 1 September 2017.