Newquay and Cornwall Junction Railway

It opened a short section to Nanpean in 1869, the remainder being built by the Cornwall Minerals Railway who took over the company in 1874.

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.