Boscarne Junction - Wenford Bridge

18th December 2006

Closure: September 1983 (Goods Only)

The furthest reach of the Withered Arm from Waterloo was this sylvan goods branch following the Camel valley up onto the edges of Bodmin Moor to tap the clay & quarry traffic at Wenford. An anachronistic survivor, it took the Serpell Report to finally kill off this quiet branch in 1983, finally ending the site of an 08 shunter wending along on a short rake of clay hoods at 10 mph or so. Today the trackbed up the Camel through the reaches of Dunmere Forest to the village of St. Breward can be walked in its entirety.

This ancillary building nestles in the narrow 'v' between the trackbed to Bodmin (North) and the trailing connection to Wenford Bridge at Dunmere Junction. Note the SR gatepost. 1118x1518 2006-11-21 16:28:05	On the higher stretches towards Wenford, not quite four years after closure. The ballast has only just been raked back with adoption of the trackbed as 779x1174 2006-12-18 00:00:00	Sunlight glows and recedes in the shrt bare rock cutting just past Dunmere Wharf. 1600x1200 2006-11-21 16:30:19	Dunmere Crossing, with rails still intact in the tarmac. Ahead where the cars are parked, was Dunmere Wharf; a public goods siding, the first of any intermediate sidings on the branch, closed April 1969. 1200x1600 2006-11-21 16:31:09
A summers evening in 1987 casts the sort of light beloved of the English water colourists over the trackbed, her just short of Penharcard Siding in the depths of Dunmere Forest. 1098x777 2006-12-15 17:39:20	1056x774 2006-12-15 15:55:18