Making the Unforgettable .. Unforgettable

• The Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway was opened in 1834 – three years before Victoria became Queen
   
• The Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway was the fifth oldest steam railway in the country (.... and, quite possibly, the world!)
   
• The Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway was probably the first railway in the country to be steam locomotive powered along its full route (the four older lines were worked in some steeper parts by cables pulling the wagons)
   
• The Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway provided the local community with a railway service two years before London!
   
• The oldest carriages on display at the National Railway Museum in York are from the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway.....

An early photograph of the original Bodmin and     Wadebridge Railway stock of 1834.  Incredibly, these coaches survive and are preserved in the National Railway Museum (NRM), York. They are thought to be the oldest railway passenger vehicles in existence....

......and  here they are today - the oldest railway

 carriages in  the land,  featuring prominently in

 the main  exhibition hall of York’s famous NRM.

Makes you proud, doesn’t it!!

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