Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway was a railway line opened in 1834 in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It linked the important town of Bodmin with the harbour at Wadebridge and also quarries at places such as Wenford. It was the first steam powered line in the county and predated the main line to London by 25 years. This was the first steam-powered railway in Cornwall, opened on 30 September 1834, running from the port of Wadebridge on the Camel estuary to Bodmin, with a branch to the settlement of Wenford Bridge on the edge of Bodmin Moor, where a china clay works later developed which sustained the route