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## About This Content
The Cornish Main Line was originally built by two separate railway companies,
the West Cornwall Railway between Truro and Penzance, opened in 1852, and the
Cornwall Railway between Plymouth and a separate station in Truro, opened in
1859. The impecunious West Cornwall company sold its railway to the more
powerful broad gauge Associated Companies, dominated by the Great Western
Railway, and the new owners converted the West Cornwall line to broad gauge.
Through goods trains started running in 1866 and passenger trains in 1867. The
Associated Companies merged into the Great Western Railway, and in 1892 the
Great Western converted all its broad gauge track to standard gauge, a process
called the gauge conversion. During the later decades of the nineteenth
century and the first half of the twentieth, the Great Western Railway was
famous for providing transport to holiday destinations in Cornwall, and there
were numerous branch lines served from the Cornish main line giving access to
the resorts. The physical limitations of the steeply graded line imposed
severe problems during the busiest times, not least for goods train operation.
Equally famous was the line’s use for transporting vegetable produce from
Cornwall, famously broccoli and cauliflower, and cut flowers from the Scilly
Isles.

Many of the branch lines were closed during the second half of the twentieth
century, but in Cornwall the Looe, Newquay, Falmouth and St Ives branches
remain in operation, with a basic local passenger traffic in winter
considerably boosted by holidaymakers in summer. The historical development of
the line is more fully dealt with at Hayle Railway, West Cornwall Railway, and
Cornwall Railway.

This Route runs between Truro and terminates in Penzance and includes Branch-
lines to Falmouth (The Maritime Route), Helston, Hayle Wharves and St Ives. I
would like to thank all of the content creators for the content that I have
used liberally in the construction of this route. I used Google Earth to
reconstruct the Redrouth Sector as accurately as is possible within the
constraints content available as freeware on the DLS.

This Route has been built using Google Earth.

Session – Come Fly with Me
Sit back and relax in an early morning flight over Cornwall. Board your De
Havilland DH 86 Dragon Rapide at Penzance Aerodrome for a one hour fifteen
minute flight exploring the scenery included in this route. Along the way Alf,
your pilot, will point out scenery items of interest. Your flight will
terminate at Truro Aerodrome. The weather along the way is fine, so just sit
back and enjoy your flight.

Trainz Route: Cornish Mainline & Branches