Modern Britain

This 1,300 metre line between Newquay Station in Cornwall and the town's harbour was originally laid in 1849. It was part of the Treffrey Mineral Tramway between St Dennis and Newquay which ran around the then-edge of the small town using horse-drawn trams. That tramway was absorbed into the Cornwall Minerals Railway in 1873, and the first passengers were carried into Newquay in 1876, with the main station being built in 1877. The CMR was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1896. Goods services to the small harbour declined, and the track between Newquay Station and the Whim (where Sainsbury's now stands) was closed in 1925 and lifted in 1926.