The junction with the main line was squeezed onto the very edge of Hayle viaduct next to the 'up' platform. Looking from the branch junction, January 5th 2007.

Base of the hut adjoining the former engine shed site, tucked neatly into the V between the descending branch incline and Hayle Station 'up' platform. A small marshalling yard also once ran along the top of the bank here, now superseded by a bungalow. Derelict, and with one wall missing, this former shunter's hut survived well into the mid-1980's.

Looking back from the shunters hut toward the junction. The incline, a de facto right of way eventually enshrined in the statute book, was until recent weeks a useful shortcut from the Hayle Terrace Crossing to Hayle station, but was closed off after alleged abuse of the pedestrian crossing to the 'down' platform and into the other part of Hayle.

A view curving down the cutting toward the first bridge and the level crossing. January 5th 2007.

Looking north under bridge 1, over the cutting below Hayle station. 5th January 2007.

A view back up the incline under bridge 1 towards the junction and Hayle station. The entire branch is walkable.

Looking across Hayle Terrace onto the swingbridge. The railway used only the left hand side of the twin decked bridge.

Bridge 2, the cast iron swing bridge at the mouth of Copperhouse Pool.

A closer view of the railway side of the swingbridge, now adopted for pedestrian use. In the background are the houses of Phillack and Hayle Towans, with the former Hayle Railway main line just visible exiting on the embankment right of frame.

Still standing, this auxiliary hut beside the site of Hayle Wharves signalbox and the town side of the swing bridge.

This low wall is the only sorry trace of Hayle Wharves signalbox, which closed in April 1964, replaced by a ground frame and train crew operated crossing gates. This was part of the front wall of the box.

The first of many sections of intact rail occur just past the swingbridge and the site of the former Hayle Railway terminus - here at the junction of North Quay and King George V Memorial Walk (the erstwhile main line)

A more panoramic shot of the rails running back towards the swingbridge.

Rails still run in many areas of the wharves. Although a large proportion of the sidings here at the town end of the harbour were officially lifted in 1971, the job was either abandoned or peculiarly half-hearted, as the next few shots illustrate. The intact public weighbridge, January 5th, 2007.

Detail of the public weighbridge on the Hayle Wharves branch.

Further trackwork proceeding along North Quay, with much of the layout still evident - these southerly sidings were severed in spring 1971.

A reverse connection into a private siding unidentified by RA Cooke. If anyone has any information on this, please contact me.

Sleepers No.1: A surviving run of stone sleepers on the quayside, 5th January 2007.

Sleepers No.2: A surviving run of wooden sleepers on the quayside, 5th January 2007.

Neatly stacked and hugley weathered, this pile of recovered sleepers look destined never to be collected now, some quarter century after closure.