B/w print

Acc.no: PEZPH : 2001.120.895

Identification

Item: Railway staff tending the garden at Nancegollan Station

Description: Railway staff tending the garden on the down platform at Nancegollan Station. There are metal windows in the building at the rear of the photograph.The railway line between Helston and Gwinear Road opened in 1887 with stations at Praze, Nancegollan and Truthall Halt. In the late 1930s it was upgraded with an increased capacity goods yard and a new signal box, relocated from the main line at St Germans. A second, metal bridge was also built to carry the road over the new yard. The station was used extensively for forwarding local produce to market. It was intended to extend the line to The Lizard, servicing the Air Stations at Predanack and then Culdrose en route. A victim of the Beeching axe, the line closed on 4 October 1964; the rails were lifted by mid 1965.Ra

Collection Name: Harry Penhaul Collection

Condition: Good

Description

Height: 91mm

Width: 164mm

Material: Paper

Production

Method: Printed

Date: 10.1956

Person: Penhaul, Harry

Category: Photography

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