New Cornish Rail Adventures Project is Exploring the Luxulyan Valley’s Treasures

The Luxulyan Valley Partnership is delighted to be behind a new project to increase the reach of the Valley to a bigger and more diverse audience. Cornwall Council and the Cornwall Heritage Trust, both members of the Partnership, have worked together to secure funding from Great Western Railway's Customer and Community Improvement Fund to take forward the initiative which will see the delivery of a range of workstreams designed to improve the connectiveness of the Valley to local active travel links and breakdown barriers that sections of the community may face to exploring the outdoors.

Workstreams that have been made possible by the funding include:

A feasibility study into opening an active travel, traffic free route linking Luxulyan railway station with the Luxulyan Valley and the World Heritage Site

• Developing and launching a digital visualisation experience at Carmears Wheel Pit and Tramway across the Treffry Viaduct
• Children's wellbeing events in the February half-term 2024
• Volunteering days to help restore heritage features including the Crib Hut and the Treffry Viaduct
• Luxulyan Treasures': Heritage and Wellbeing Drop In Day in the Luxulyan Valley. Storytelling, bushcraft, guided walks, trails and family friendly activities linking Treffry Viaduct and Carmears Wheel Pit.
• Design of a new walking/ cycling trail from Luxulyan station to the valley
• Installation of posters at 5 stations including St Austell and Newquay, encouraging rail travel and visits to the Luxulyan Valley. Printed in Cornwall on MSC certified paper.
• Instagram ‘Rail Adventures’ reel promoting rail travel, the new walking trail linking Luxulyan station with the Valley

We expect the project to complete in March 2024.