GWR Road Motor Cars Land Cruises were a GWR innovation of the 1920s.This Thorneycroft (Fleet No 1299) awaits passengers at The Queens Hotel for a trip to Lands End & St Ives summer 1928
Lostwithiel to Fowey branch. One of thelast steam workings on this line. An ex-GWR prairie tank brings back a rake of loose-coupled clay wagons from Fowey to go on to the clay sidings probably at Bugle or Burngullow.
View along the shore under the Mousehole Road, below the site of Penlee Quarry. Showing mine chimney stack of Tolvadden copper mine on far point, and Stones Cottage, far right.