The Liskeard and Caradon Railway was a mineral railway in Cornwall, England, established under an 1843 Act of Parliament and opened in stages from November 1844. It was built to carry copper and tin ore, along with granite, down from mines and quarries on Caradon Hill to Moorswater, where the material was shipped onward through Looe Harbour. The line's fortunes tracked the mining district it served: as mines such as South Caradon closed in the 1880s, its traffic and revenue declined. The Great Western Railway purchased the line on 1 July 1909. Operations were suspended in 1917 to assist the war effort, and the railway was formally abandoned in 1931 after mineral traffic never recovered.
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The proposed railway swiftly obtained approval in Parliament, with royal assent being given to the Liskeard and Caradon Railway Act 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. xliii) on 26 June 1843.
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The Liskeard and Caradon Railway (L&CR) (Cornish: Hyns-horn Lyskerrys ha Karn) was a mineral railway in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, which opened in 1844.
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