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Launceston

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Launceston (1983-)

Opened on the North Cornwall Railway.

Description

This is the eastern terminus of the Launceston Steam Railway, which opened on 26/12/1983 running for half a mile west along the disused trackbed of the former North Cornwall Railway. The station site is west of Launceston [LSWR], the site of which had become an industrial estate.

Tags

Station Terminus
11/08/2023

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Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

26/12/1983	Launceston Steam Railway North Cornwall Railway Line opened running west for half a mile along the disused trackbed of the former North Cornwall Railway from Launceston station, a new station site west of Launceston [LSWR].

News items

08/01/2014	Steaming for railway's anniversary [The Cornishman]