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Caradon & Looe The Canal, Railways and Mines By Michael Messenger
Caradon And Looe The Canal, Railways and Mines By Michael Messenger
Hardcover with dust jacket 168 pages
Copyright 1977, SECOND EDITION 2001
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1 Beginnings
Chapter 2 The Canal
Chapter 3 Horses and Gravity
Chapter 4 The Steam Railways
Chapter 5 Hopes and Despair
Chapter 6 Change of Direction
Chapter 7 The Great Western and After
Chapter 8 From the Sea to the Moor
Chapter 9 Locomotives and Rolling Stock
Chapter 10 Men and Machines
Chapter 11 The Future
Sources and acknowledgements
Bibliography
Footnotes
Appendices:
1Chronology
2Traffic figures and accounts
3Copper and tin production of the Caradon District
4Locomotive and Rolling Stock details
5Early Byelaws and Regulations
6Borlase Childs' memories
7Mines around Caradon Hill
Index
The Liskeard & Looe Union Canal was built for agricultural purposes but the discovery of copper ore on Caradon Hill changed its character completely. The Liskeard & Caradon Railway was built to carry copper ore and granite down from the hill, and did so uniquely by gravity, for the canal to take on down to Looe. Overwhelmed by the traffic, Looe Harbour was built, giving us the harbour we know today.
The canal itself could not cope and built a railway alongside, introducing steam power and the two railways then worked together, despite retaining their separate identities. Passenger trains were introduced on the Looe line and the Caradon line, briefly, flirted with a free passenger service, carrying people who had paid for their umbrella or bags to be carried.
After just fifty years of fabulous wealth the copper mines succumbed to foreign competition and closed down, throwing the Caradon railway into receivership. The Looe railway built a connection to the main line at Liskeard and concentrated on building Looe into a holiday resort, with some success, until the Great Western Railway took it all over.
This is very much a local story, for it was all achieved by local people; people like engineers Robert Coad and Silvanus Jenkin, like mining entrepreneurs Peter and James Clymo and like the banker Lewis Foster who was receiver of the Caradon line for twenty-eight years.
The definitive history of the Liskeard & Looe Union Canal, the Liskeard & Caradon Railway and the Liskeard & Looe Railway was first published in 1978 and has been scarce and sought after for some years. This new edition has been fully revised and benefits from additional research and many new illustrations.
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