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    Jun 01, 2020 4 minutes

    Devon & Cornwall Railfreight

    By David Mitchell

    Published by Silver Link Publishing www.nostalgiacollection.com208 pages, colour, hardback. £40

    RAILFREIGHT in Devon and Cornwall today is a shadow of its former self, and this book chronicles the decline over the last 50 years of various flows now consigned to history. It begins in the latter steam years, but most of the photos used are of diesels through to the current Privatised era.

    Examples of lost trade covered include Devon milk trains; Cornish china clay; grain and fertiliser traffic; coal around Exmouth Junction, Plymstock cement works and Falmouth Docks; oil to Exeter, Heathfield, Plymouth and Hayle; Ministry of

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