Mr Donald Trewern, Chairman of Penwith District Council, the local authority responsible for the Penzance Area, cutting the first turf on the site of the new Diesel Maintenance Depot at Penzance. Looking on are Mr Arthur Eplett, British Rail's Area…
Located on the Chacewater to Newquay branch. With wooden platforms and a small "pagoda" shelter, it was typical of the G.W.R.s small stations and halts of the era.
Photo reproduction of print sold at Sothebys in 1979. Part of Estate of Earl Beauchamp.
Clipping from The Westcountryman (19/5/1979):
"This 19th century print, part of a collection of railway prints being sold at Sotheby's next Friday, by order…