Looe Valley Line
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From Liskeard, runs the scenic Looe Valley Line that can be used as a very enjoyable 'Park and Ride' to visit Looe, with easy parking at the station in Liskeard. This unusual and pretty line was originally a part of the, then, linked Liskeard & Caradon Railway and Liskeard & Looe Railway. The line follows, in part, the course of the earlier Liskeard & Looe Union Canal that was constructed between Moorswater and Looe, for the onward shipping of granite and ore from the L&CR to Looe. Both canal and railways were used to link the old copper mines and granite quarries on the heights of Bodmin Moor (at over 1150 feet above sea level), with the sea-port of Looe. The part of the line still open for commuting between Looe and Liskeard, and for holiday visitors to travel to Looe, includes the link between the higher Liskeard Station and the lower Moorswater (Coombe Junction), which was the original link built to connect the main line to the L&CR and L&LR, and is unusually steep.

Looe Valley Line station at Liskeard

Park and Ride for Looe!

End of the line at Looe (it used to continue right down to the quayside at Looe
when granite and copper were brought down from the quarries and mines on the moor)

Passengers only now, and a very scenic railway line