Launceston Steam Railway

The Launceston Steam Railway is a 1 toes 11 1⁄2 in slim gauge railway operating from the city of Launceston in Cornwall. The first railway to reach Launceston become the Launceston and South Devon Railway, opened in 1865 from Launceston to Plymouth, and later absorbed into the Great Western Railway. In 1886 the London and South Western Railway opened its railway from Halwill Junction, extended to Padstow in ranges in the 90s, and later part of the Southern Railway. The Launceston stations were facet by side: the Great Western closed in 1962 and the Southern in 1966.
In 1965, trainee teacher Nigel Bowman rescued the steam locomotive "Lilian" from the Penrhyn Slate Quarry in North Wales, and restored her to running order at his domestic in Surrey. He then set about searching out a domain to build a railway for Lilian to run on, and settled on Launceston in 1971, after considering a stretch of trackbed from Guildford to Horsham and the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway. Purchase of the trackbed took numerous years, and the primary 1⁄2 mile of song opened on Boxing Day 1983. The railway became prolonged steadily, the contemporary establishing to Newmills in 1995 bringing the line to its present day 2 1⁄2-mile length.