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HER Number:	MCO54612
Name:	BROWNQUEEN - Post Medieval railway tunnel

Summary

Brownqueen tunnel on the Cornwall Railway, opened in 1859.

Grid Reference:	SX 0971 6284
Parish:	Lostwithiel, Restormel, Cornwall
Map:	Show location on Streetmap

Protected Status: None recorded

Other Statuses/Codes: none recorded

Monument Type(s):

RAILWAY TUNNEL (19th Century to Unknown - 1859 AD)

Full description

Brownqueen tunnel was built for the Cornwall Railway of 1859, and was constructed to broad gauge double-track width. This is the tunnel in which the architect Silvanus Trevail shot himself on a train in 1903.

<1> Perry, R & Harradence, H, 2008, Silvanus Trevail, Cornish Architect and Entrepreneur, 174 (Bibliographic reference). SCO4113.

Sources / Further Reading

[1]	SCO4113 - Bibliographic reference: Perry, R & Harradence, H. 2008. Silvanus Trevail, Cornish Architect and Entrepreneur. 174.

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

Related records

165670

Part of: CORNWALL RAILWAY - Post Medieval railway (Monument)

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