Full Size The Pentewan Railway, M J T Lewis

Paul Cambridge

Western Thunderer
This third edition from Twelveheads Press contains additional materiel and updates from the 1981 2nd edition. Incidentally the first edition was way back in 1960! The additional materiel is by Micheal Messenger and the opportunity has also been take to include the railway chapter from Twelvehead’s “Rail & Sail to Pentewan”. It’s now in a larger format as well.
This is a book for narrow gauge enthusiasts who are interested in small and obscure lines. Initially a horse drawn affair, locomotives appeared for the latter part of its life. It’s was doomed from the start by not reaching the China Clay industry it was built to serve and by transporting the clay to a port that was small, silted too easily and in the end could not compete with the standard gauge served Par and Fowey.
As a callow youth growing up in St. Austell, this edition has finally resolved for me where the railway actually started from in the town.
If there is one criticism, then the drawings only show side and not end elevations.
 
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