Mineral Tramway Trails

Tunnel on the Basset Tramway, now the Great Flat Lode Trail

The Mineral Tramway Trails trails are a series of trails located in westerly Cornwall, in the old mining area. They have been built largely following the tracks of the railways and tramways which were once strung across the landscape linking the mines and industry together and to the sea.

Current trails

The trails in this group are:

Coast to Coast Trail	11 miles	From Devoran (south coast) to Portreath (north coast) following disused tramways
Great Flat Lode Trail	7½ miles	A circular trail encompassing much of the mining area to the south of Redruth and Camborne
Portreath Branchline Trail	5½ miles	Portreath to Brea on the line of the old Hayle Railway
Redruth and Chasewater Trail	7½ miles	Tracing the old Redruth and Chasewater Ralway
Tehidy Trail	2½ miles	Through Tehidy Country Park
Tolgus Trail	< 1 mile	Connecting Redruth station to the Coast to Coast Trail at Cambrose, along the Portreath Valley
Tresavean Trail	1 mile	Tracing a branch of the Hayle Railway which served the Tresavean Copper Mine

Outside links

• Mineral Tramways - Cornwall Council

Bibliography

• Acton, Bob - Exploring Cornwall's Tramway Trails, vol. 1: Great Flat Lode Trail, 1996, reprinted 2001, ISBN 978-1-873443-41-5
• Acton, Bob - Exploring Cornwall's Tramway Trails, vol. 2: Coast-to-coast Trail - Portreath to Devoran and Beyond, 1997, reprinted 2000, ISBN 978-1-873443-37-8