THE
LAPPA VALLEY STEAM RAILWAY runs on one of the
oldest railway trackbeds in Cornwall. Opened in 1849 as
a mineral line from Newquay to East Wheal Rose, it later
became part of the Great Western Railway's Newquay to
Chacewater branch line. This was closed in 1963, and in
1974 Eric Booth, the founder of Lappa Valley, reopened
part of the line as a narrow-gauge railway. |