Fowey railway station

The railway from Fowey to Newquay was opened by the Cornwall Minerals Railway on 1 June 1874. Fowey railway station was opened on 20 June 1876 when a passenger service was introduced, the next station being at Par.

The station had two platforms with loading docks and a goods shed. It was situated at Caffa Mill Pill on the north side of the town by the River Fowey. Goods trains passed through the station to the jetties where ships could be loaded directly from the wagons.

On 16 September 1895 a connection was made to the disused Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway and a passenger service introduced between Fowey and Lostwithiel. An intermediate station was opened at Golant on 1 July 1896, on the same day that the Cornwall Minerals Railway was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway.

The advertised passenger service to Newquay was withdrawn on 8 July 1929, although unadvertised workmen's trains continued to run until 29 December 1934.

The Great Western Railway was nationalised into British Railways on 1 January 1948. The passenger service to Lostwithiel was withdrawn on 4 January 1965 and the remaining goods traffic from Par ceased on 1 July 1968. The railway was then converted into a private road to bring china clay from Par harbour.

The station has been demolished and the site is now a car park, although some of the original buildings remain. Trains of china clay still operate from Lostwithiel to a jetty at Carne Point, a little further up the river.