Grampound Road railway station
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The station opened with the Cornwall Railway on 4 May 1859. A newspaper reported at the time merely that "it comprises arrival and departure stations exactly similar to those at Par."
Because of its out of the way location two cottages were built in 1860 for the station master and his staff. A small village grew up around the railway station and continues to expand despite the station having been closed for many years. From April 1865 the Post Office paid the station master to also act as a post master.
A goods shed was not provided until 1864 but the goods traffic developed quickly: 3,580 cattle were dispatched in the twelve months to June 1869, more than any other station on the line.
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. The station closed in October 1964. Harry Hingston was the last registered paid employee and Station master.
The station served the district around Grampound, Tregony, Ladock, Probus, and St Stephens in Cornwall (between St Austell and Truro). Other stations were opened in the area at Burngullow on 1 February 1863 and Probus and Ladock Halt on 1 February 1908.
[edit] References
- The records of the Cornwall Railway can be consulted at The National Archives at Kew.
- West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, Railway Special Edition, 1859.
- The Great Western Railway in Mid Cornwall, Alan Bennett, Kingfisher Railway Publications, Southampton 1988. ISBN 0-946184-53-4
