Angarrack viaduct
1877 | Angarrack Viaduct | Between 12 and 1 o'clock yesterday man named Allen was killed on the Angarrack viaduct
Fatal Railway Accident near Hayle.— Between 12 and 1 o'clock yesterday a man named Allen was killed on the Angarrack viaduct of the West Cornwall Railway. A gang of men were engaged repairing the viaduct, and a luggage train passed, the break van struck Allen, knocking him under the wheels, which passed over his head, killing turn instantly. Deceased was a native of Penpoads, Camborne, and leaves wife and four children.
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200219 | £5m Rail Upgrade Underway
£5m Rail Upgrade Underway
Published by the Pirate FM News Team at 11:47am 19th February 2020. (Updated at 3:43pm 19th February 2020)
Cornwall is being promised more reliable railways - and fewer flood cancellations.
It is as repair work starts between Penzance and Truro - and St Ives and St Erth.
Bus replacement services are being brought in while the five million pound project is completed. read more »
200220 | Network Rail will be carrying out waterproofing work to Hayle Viaduct between Saturday 15 and Sunday 23 February 2020
Date disruption to train services in Cornwall is due to end
GWR announced measures in place while work is carried out by Network Rail through the half term read more »
1839 | Mrs Mary Courts crossing rail road line near Angarrack incline knocked down by descending train and fatally injured
16th May 1839, an elderly person, Mrs Mary Courts, nee Tremayne, when crossing the rail road line near the Angarrack incline, was knocked down by a descending train and fatally injured
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A booklet entitled, "Angarrack, The Singular History of a Cornish Village", by John Higgans, dated 1986 at Newton Abbot
57602 Angarrack 17 June 2017 | The setting sun just about clings on long enough to illuminate 57602 as it rolls across Angarrack
57602 Angarrack 17 June 2017
The setting sun just about clings on long enough to illuminate 57602 as it rolls across Angarrack viaduct with 2C51, the 17.50 Exeter St Davids - Penzance on 17 June 2017. Photographing the GWR loco-hauled this far west is only really doable in high summer with a clear sky to the west - with the train running late it was after 9pm and the light was really fading fast. read more »
1852 | Angarrack 29 July 1852 Brunel ENGINEER’S REPORT West Cornwall Railway Company
Isambard Kingdom Brunel Engineer's Report
The Royal Cornwall Gazette, Falmouth Packet, and General Advertiser (Truro, England), Friday, August 27, 1852; pg. 6; Issue 2566. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II. read more »
The Angarrack Viaduct - 1998. Photo by Martin Loader
1851 | Angarrack Viaduct - Timber Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the original Angarrack viaduct from timberin 1851
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The Life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7kbGklaeTQQC&vq=angarrack&dq=brunel+v... read more »
1852 | Completion of the Cornwall Railway | West Briton 5 March 1852
The West Briton from 5 March 1852 has a thrilling account of the completion of the Cornwall Railway
via http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wbritonad/cornwall/185... read more »
1883 | Angarrack Viaduct | Richard WHIDDON 15 22-Oct 1883 | Fell from a crane at Angarrack Viaduct
According to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~phillack/burials/bur1880_1884.htm : read more »
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1884 | Angarrack Viaduct | Thomas BORE and Thomas WAKEHAM | 4-Jul 1884 | Killed at Angarrack Viaduct by a falling derrick
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King Edward 1st and 5029 Nunney Castle on Angarrack Viaduct heading east - close up
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