Calstock Halton Quay 7mm NG
Because of the lack of port facilities the mines around Calstock and Kit Hill found difficulty in expanding. Halton Quay was opened up primarily so that more ore could be exported to South Wales. Due however to silting, the new port was not the success it was hoped, and the last ore was exported via the East Cornwall Minerals Railway and Halton Quay in 1908. Halton Quay does exist to this day.
Like the previous essay in the series, the railways at Halton Quay are actually pure fiction; however the model does set out to portray accurately what a small port of the period would have looked like. We have tried to show the small industries that were so important to a port, such as the boat builders / the sail makers / the rope works etc as well as the basic railway facilities that would have existed.
See a Youtube video here:
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