Padstow - The Camel Trail By Drone Sea & MTB

The Camel Trail is a permissive cycleway in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, that provides a recreational route for walkers, runners, cyclists and horse riders. As a rail trail, the route has only a slight incline following the River Camel from Padstow to Wenford Bridge via Wadebridge and Bodmin, at a total of 18.3 miles (29.5 km) long.

An estimated 400,000 people use the trail each year, generating approximately £3 million year for the local economy.
trail is jointly managed by Cornwall Council and the Camel Trail Partnership.

Railway history

The Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway was originally built at a cost of £35,000 following a study commissioned in 1831 by local landowner Sir William Molesworth of Pencarrow. The line was originally used to carry lime-rich sand from the Camel estuary to inland farms for use as fertiliser.[5][6][7] In 1862, the railway started shipping china clay which, became its most reliable trade.[8] Additionally the line would be used to ship slate from inland quarries to ships in Padstow, and also to transport fish landed in Padstow inland; primarily to London and other cities.

Like much of the British Railways network, over the course of the 1960s the services between Padstow and Bodmin's three stations (Bodmin Road, Bodmin General and Bodmin North) were subjected to closures as a part of the "Beeching Axe"—an attempt by the UK government to increase the profitability and efficiency of British Rail. As a result, passenger services between Bodmin and Padstow were terminated, with the last passenger train running in 1967. Freight services continued between Bodmin Road and Wadebridge until 1978. The last services on the line to close were the china clay freight services from Wenfordbridge to Bodmin in September 1983

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