Nancegollan railway station

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Nancegollan
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General information
Location Nancegollan, Cornwall
England
Coordinates 50°08′33″N5°18′19″W / 50.1426°N 5.3053°W / 50.1426; -5.3053
Grid reference SW639321
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Helston Railway
Pre-grouping Great Western Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Key dates
9 May 1887Opened
5 November 1962Closed for passengers
5 October 1964Closed for freight

Nancegollan railway station located in Nancegollan, Cornwall served an important agricultural district and was also the railhead for the fishing port of Porthleven. [1]

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History

The station opened on 9 May 1887 when the Helston Railway opened the line between Helston and Gwinear Road on the Great Western Railway mainline to Penzance. [2] [3]

The line was operated by the Great Western Railway and absorbed by that company on 2 August 1898. [3]

Originally it had a single passenger platform on the upside and a goods loop without a platform; [4] the connections were operated by a 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. [5]

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. A camping coach was positioned here by the Western Region from 1958 to 1962. [6]

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. [7] 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.

In April 1957, Nancegollan won £10 (£238.65 in today's money [8] ) in the British Railways Western Region Station Gardens Competition. [9]

The branch was closed for passengers on 5 November 1962. Goods traffic continued for a further two years, finally ceasing on 5 October 1964; the track was lifted by mid-1965. [2] [10] [11]

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Praze   Great Western Railway
Helston Railway 		  Truthall Halt

Station Masters

The following people are known to have been Station Masters at Nancegollan Station, with approximate dates show.

The site today

Today the site of Nancegollan is an industrial estate. [16] There are plans for the Helston Railway to extend the line into Nancegollen at some point.

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References

  1. ↑ "Nancegollan Station, Helston Branch Railway, about 1887". Museum of Cornish Life. Helston Museum. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  2. 1 2 Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 327. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
  3. 1 2 Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 260. ISBN   978-1-78803-768-6.
  4. ↑ "Nancegollan station on OS 25 inch map Cornwall LXX.13 (Breage; Crowan; Sithney)". National Library of Scotland. 1908. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
  5. ↑ Oakley, Mike (2009). Cornwall Railway Stations. Wimborne Minster: Dovecote Press. ISBN   978-1-904-34968-6.
  6. ↑ McRae, Andrew (1998). British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. p. 95. ISBN   1-870119-53-3.
  7. ↑ Becket, W. S. (n.d.). Operation Cornwall. Caernarvon: Xpress Publishing. ISBN   1-901056-25-2.
  8. ↑ Archives, The National. "The National Archives - Currency converter: 1270–2017". Currency converter. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  9. ↑ "Station Garden Competition". British Railways Magazine (Western Region). 4: 111–112. April 1957.
  10. ↑ Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. p. 30 (ref 1458). ISBN   0-9477-9618-5.
  11. ↑ Atterbury, Paul (2011). Along Lost Lines. Cincinnati: David & Charles. p. 18. ISBN   978-0-7153-2706-7.
  12. ↑ "Examination Successes". British Railways Magazine (Western Region). 6: 137. July 1955.
  13. ↑ "Promotions and Transfers". British Railways Magazine (Western Region). 8: 337–339. December 1957.
  14. ↑ Ivey, William Frederick. "Helston Branch Railway". Helston History.
  15. ↑ "Promotions and Transfers". British Railways Magazine (Western Region). 9: 18, 20, 22. January 1958.
  16. ↑ "Google map image from the Nancegollen industrial estate" . Retrieved 1 September 2017.
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