Bodmin Parkway

CRS Code	BOD
Collected date	24/05/05

Bodmin Parkway nestles in the woods between Liskeard and Lostwithiel. Apart from the footbridge and signal box the station's buildings are modern, as can be seen in this picture looking eastwards:

At the western end of the station. The Bodmin and Wenford Railway's line stops just to the left as the main line curves out of sight:

Looking east at the station buildings, with the preserved line to the right:

The old signal box is now a café operated by the Bodmin and Wenford railway:

Bodmin Parkway was originally Bodmin Road, and both names indicate that the station is quite some way from Bodmin itself. Although passenger services to Bodmin General station stopped in 1967, china clay traffic kept the line to Bodmin open until 1983 and shortly after that the Bodmin and Wenford Railway was born. It now departs from platform 3 of Bodmin Parkway:

An old Western Region brown totem on the side of the footbridge:

Some old stock sits in the sidings on the preserved railway side of the station:

Sadly, time didn't allow a trip on the Bodmin and Wenford, but it's good to think that a steam service could well be a Really Useful Railway by providing this link to Bodmin.

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