Doublebois railway station
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Doublebois station in Cornwall was at the summit of the Cornwall Railway which opened on 4 May 1859. A siding was provided at this time to enable trains to be split into smaller parts should any require this to enable them to be worked over the steep inclines up from Liskeard and Bodmin Road.
In January 1860 the railway company was asked to provide a facility here for goods traffic, which they acceded to after local people subscribed £130 towards it and offered the necessary land. Because of this the company offered to build an accompanying passenger station. The station opened on 1 June 1860, providing a service to people and mines in the St Neot area.
The Cornwall Railway was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway on 1 July 1889. The Great Western Railway was nationalised into British Railways from 1 January 1948 which was then privatised in the 1990s.
The station has since been closed.
[edit] References
- Map sources
- The records of the Cornwall Railway can be consulted at The National Archives at Kew.
- The Great Western Railway in East Cornwall, Alan Bennett, Runpast Publishing, Cheltenham 1990, ISBN 1-870754-11-5
