Gunnislake

CRS Code	GSL
Collected date	27/05/05

The Gunnislake branch from Plymouth is what remains of the railways to Callington and (via the junction at Bere Alston) to Tavistock, a network of now-closed railways in northern Devon and Cornwall, and an alternative route to Exeter. All bar this branch were closed. The branch to Gunnislake mostly survived because of the difficult road access to the area.

The platform and track, looking away from the end of the line:

The buffers at the end of the line. The station in Gunnislake was a few hundred metres further along the line until the mid-1990s, bridging a road just behind the shrubs in the background:

The station area and shelter from the access ramp to its car park:

The station wall is decorated with painted tiles showing scenes from the line; in the panel on the left is the viaduct at Calstock one stop along the line:

The art includes this picture of A S Harris, a locomotive used on this line and named after a director of the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway:

All photographs are © Alexandra Lanes You may reproduce them anywhere for any purpose. Coastline maps are reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey © Crown copyright 2001