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LISKEARD AND LOOE RAILWAY, a mineral railway in Cornwall; from a junction with the Liskeard and Caradon, at Liskeard, southward 7 miles to the Looe navigation. It was authorized in 1858; and a capital of £13,000, in £25 shares, was to be provided for it by the Liskeard and Looe Canal company. The steepest gradient in it is 1 in 63. Both this railway and the Liskeard and Caradon act as feeders to the Cornwall railway.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a mineral railway" (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features") |
Administrative units: | Cornwall AncC |
Place: | Liskeard |
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