Disused railway lines and closed stations in Cornwall

176 miles of disused railway
20 closed stations
36 stations open today
53 named lost lines

Cornwall has 176 miles of disused railway and 20 closed stations, against 36 stations still open today. That is 0.6 closed for every station still served. The longest lost line is the North Cornwall Line, with 30 miles of its route inside Cornwall.

See Cornwall’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 176 miles of lost railway in Cornwall break down as 163 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 8.8 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 3.1 miles with track still in place but no trains and 0.6 miles dismantled. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Cornwall

53 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Cornwall; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
North Cornwall Line	30
Truro and Newquay Line	14
Liskeard and Caradon Railway	11
Helston Branch	7.3
Liskeard and Caradon Line	5.9
Bodmin and Wadebridge Line	5.5
Bude Branch	4.7
Fowey Branch	4.2
Saltash to St Germans Line	4.1
Retew Branch	4.0
The Camel Trail	3.5
East Cornwall Mineral Railway	3.4
Treamble Mine Railway	3.2
Hayle Railway	3.0
Portreath Branch	3.0
Goonbarrow Branch	2.5
Newham Branch Line	2.4
St Dennis Branch	2.3
Tregantle Military Railway	2.3
Tresavean Branch	2.0
Launceston Branch	1.7
Plymouth, Devonport & South Western Junction Railway	1.7
Trenance Valley Branch	1.7
Gravel Hill Tramway	1.6
Falmouth Docks	1.5
The Old Harbour Tramway	1.2
Carbis Branch	1.2
Pennance Road	1.1
Ruthern Bridge Branch	1.1
Old Tram Road	1.1
Colcerrow Tramway	0.9
North Roskear Branch	0.9
Camel Trail	0.8
Valley Floor Tramway	0.8
Redruth - Chacewater Railway	0.7
Redruth - Chasewater Railway	0.7
Treffry Aqueduct Line	0.7
Higher Tramway	0.7
Portreath Tramway	0.7
Looe and Moorswater Branch	0.6

And 13 shorter stretches: Old Carnon Hill, Basset Mines Tramway, Falmouth Branch Original Route, Pontsmill Branch, Carmears Inclined Plane, North Crofty Branch, Calstock Quay Branch, Wheal Rose Branch, Drinnick Mill Goods Branch, Hayle Wharf Branch, Carrancarrow China Clay Works, Former Truro and Newquay Railway Line route and Toldish Tunnel.

Closed railway stations in Cornwall

All 20 closed and former stations in Cornwall, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Cornwall

36 stations in Cornwall still have a train service. The busiest are Truro (1.3 million a year), St Ives (850,992 a year), Penzance (685,470 a year), St Austell (525,828 a year) and St Erth (444,754 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

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About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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