Newquay and Cornwall Junction Railway

Joseph Treffry had opened a tramway to connect mines and pits in the Hendra and St Dennis area of Cornwall in 1849.

[1][2] Burngullow is located about 2 miles (3 km) west of St Austell station, on the Cornwall Railway main line.

The company would reach Hendra, "affording direct communication with Newquay, Par, Fowey and Falmouth".

[2] At last the short main line (3.5 miles (5.6 km) in length) was opened from Burngullow to Drinnick Mill Clay Works, near Nanpean on 1 July 1869.

The lease took effect from 1 June 1874 but the company never received everything that it had been promised and took legal action against the Cornwall Minerals Railway.

The contractor who built the line, William West of St Blazey, also contracted to operate the railway.