Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for REDRUTH and FALMOUTH JUNCTION RAILWAY

REDRUTH and FALMOUTH JUNCTION RAILWAY, a railway in Cornwall; from the West Cornwallline at Redruth, 5¼ miles east-south-eastward, to the Truro and Falmouth line at Perran-Arworthal. It was authorized in 1864, on a capital of £80,000 in shares, and £26, 600 in loans.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Cornwall AncC
Place: Redruth

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