A nostalgic painting of the Wenford branch in Cornwall.
A picture by Vic Millington, entitled Wenford Farewell, bought in Cornwall in 1985, while I was visiting for the GWR anniversary celebrations, it is now displayed in my railway room. Note the ghost of a Beattie well tank.
The gentleman with the beard and hat I believe to be Samuel Worth, born at St Mabyn in 1815. He joined the Bodmin & Wenford Railway when it opened in 1834 as a look-out man on the front of the engine, opening and shutting gates and chasing stray cattle off the line. The following year he was seriously injured in a shunting accident at Helland Bridge; despite being absent for over a year, the Company held him in such high regard that they paid him full wages, surly a very early example of such benevolence. He became a Wharfinger at Bodmin in 1839, a position he held for 58 years until his retirement at the age of 80 in 1895.
Published by Pictures (Cornwall) Ltd.
A nostalgic painting of the Wenford branch in Cornwall.
A picture by Vic Millington, entitled Wenford Farewell, bought in Cornwall in 1985, while I was visiting for the GWR anniversary celebrations, it is now displayed in my railway room. Note the ghost of a Beattie well tank.
The gentleman with the beard and hat I believe to be Samuel Worth, born at St Mabyn in 1815. He joined the Bodmin & Wenford Railway when it opened in 1834 as a look-out man on the front of the engine, opening and shutting gates and chasing stray cattle off the line. The following year he was seriously injured in a shunting accident at Helland Bridge; despite being absent for over a year, the Company held him in such high regard that they paid him full wages, surly a very early example of such benevolence. He became a Wharfinger at Bodmin in 1839, a position he held for 58 years until his retirement at the age of 80 in 1895.
Published by Pictures (Cornwall) Ltd.