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Kris

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Well. that's wasted a good afternoon! :thankyou:

Superb site and in connection with a recent query about the Redruth and Chacewater Railway, several pics I have not seen before of Devoran, including one with a loco stripped down in the workshops

'Ansome stuff.

 

Thanks for finding.

Steve W

(in exile)

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Fascinating stuff!

I typed in "Tin MIne" in the search, followed the next picture trail and came to the destruction of the Par - Fowey branch  becoming the basis of the Haul Road construction. Dozens of pictures along the track bed, some with rails still present.

Several show sleepers recessed in the centre  (http://cornishmemory.com/item/WMA_P1_1_2056 ). Were these pressed steel sleepers?

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Thanks for telling us about this Kris

I typed in Boscarne and there were several pictures of Lower Boscarne Farm and the family who lived there. And also the cattle they had. Now being a Norfolk boy I'm familiar with various breeds but I am no expert and obviously models need the correct livestock for time and place etc.

The beasts photographed might I guess be Ayrshires by the markings but they don't look big enough and maybe not enough white.

Might they be a Cornish breed I wonder?

 

Any cow-fanciers out there with any a ideas? 

 

Regards

Richard

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