East Cornwall Mineral Railway

50°30′11″N 4°18′58″W / 50.503°N 4.316°W / 50.503; -4.316

East Cornwall Mineral Railway
Overview
HeadquartersCalstock
LocaleSouth East Cornwall
Dates of operation1872–1894
SuccessorPlymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway
Technical
Track gauge3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) (1872–1908)
4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) (from 1908)
Length8 mi (13 km)
Route map

engine shed
Callington
Kit Hill incline
Kit Hill sidings
Luckett
(Monks Corner Depot)
Seven Stones crossing
Seven Stones
(Phoenix sidings)
Latchely crossing
Latchley
(Cox Park Depot)
Gunnislake Clitters
Mine Tramway
Chilsworthy
(West of England sidings)
Plymouth Works siding
Pearson's Quarry sidings
Drakewall
Trainer Bridge
incline station
(Butt's Meadow)
Danescombe incline
Danescombe Quay
Calstock
Calstock Quay sidings
wagon lift

The East Cornwall Mineral Railway was a 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge railway line, opened in 1872 to connect mines and quarries in the Callington and Gunnislake areas in east Cornwall, England, with shipping at Calstock on the River Tamar. The line included a rope-worked incline to descend to the quay at Calstock.

Following the opening of a main line railway at nearby Bere Alston, a connecting line from there to Calstock was opened, and the existing line converted to standard gauge, opening throughout as a passenger line in 1908. When rural lines in the area were closed in the 1960s, a short section of the original ECMR line was retained to keep open a connection from Plymouth to Gunnislake, and that section remains open at the present day.