Boscarne Junction railway station is a railway station on the

Bodmin and Wenford Railway The Bodmin and Wenford Railway (BWR) is a heritage railway, based at Bodmin in Cornwall, England. It has an interchange with the national rail network at Bodmin Parkway railway station, the southern terminus of the line. History The Great West ...

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, United Kingdom, and is its current terminus of the railway. It is adjacent to the

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, a

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and cycle trail. In earlier days it was the junction for lines to and to

Padstow Padstow (; kw, Lannwedhenek) is a town, civil parishes in England, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England. The town is situated on the west bank of the River Camel estuary approximately northwest of Wadebridge, ...

and

Wenfordbridge Wenfordbridge, or Wenford Bridge, is a hamlet some north of Bodmin and on the western flank of Bodmin Moor, in Cornwall, England, UK. It takes its name from an old granite bridge over the River Camel, and lies on the border between the parishe ...

History

Boscarne Junction was created in 1888 when the

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built a line to connect from their Bodmin General railway station to the

Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway The Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway was a railway line opened in 1834 in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It linked the quays at Wadebridge with the town of Bodmin and also to quarries at Wenfordbridge.Sources use Wenfordbridge and Wenford Bridge ...

. Originally there was a loop on either side of the line, each straddling the junction which was controlled by a signal box; a second and longer loop was added from the

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extending down the Wenfordbridge line well beyond the junction before 1911. The purpose of the GWR line was to take

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from Wenford clay dries to the docks at

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, the traffic having previously been taken by the Bodmin and Wenford Railway to . From 15 June 1964 to 18 April 1966 a small halt was built at the junction to enable a separate shuttle service to operate along the Bodmin North branch to connect with trains between Padstow and Bodmin Road. The line to Wadebridge was truncated at the road just beyond the signal box in 1981, and the line closed completely on 3 October 1983.

Revival

opened a new station at Boscarne Junction on 15 August 1996 for its trains to . Today the station consists of a platform with enclosed shelter. One of the former signal posts can still be seen in the small grass 'triangle' area just beyond the end of the platform. Although the end of the line, it has been proposed that an extension to will be constructed.

Services

References

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