The figure of Wat Ollamoor in “The Fiddler of the Reels” is obviously drawn from the legends which associate the devil with music, especially that of the fiddle. (Mop is also compared to Paganini, who was rumored to have drawn his power from the devil.) Once again, however, Hardy does not attempt to concentrate on the unearthly power of the musician; his concern is rather with its effect on his characters, especially Car’line. In this woman’s infatuation and helplessness, one can see the obsessiveness and sexual passion which also drive Tess of the D’Urbervilles. Also in 1943 an ’emergency’ spur ( above) was added at Launceston enabling a connection between the two lines. This spur was used for munitions trains during the remainder of the war, but would prove to be of use after the war to transfer traffic. After ‘D-Day’ in 1944 saw the line being used to transport ‘P.O.W.’s with many disembarking at Launceston for the Pennygillam P.O.W. camp. I did not speak to her till she spoke to me. And I did not go near the place. I met her in the road.' I do - though I think the poor boy may have looked at us in the hope we might relieve him of his heavy load, rather than from curiosity.' From Halwill the line describes a loop turning from north to south west; it runs downhill at gradients of 1 in 74 and 1 in 82 [4] to join the valley of the River Carey, following this down for nearly 10 miles (16km) to cross the River Tamar just east of Launceston, the first station actually in Cornwall. From a summit at Otterham, 800 feet (244m), the line descends into the upper reaches of the Camel valley, passing through Camelford Station over 2 miles west of Camelford town and then leaving the valley for a gentle climb to the coastal uplands.

The Great Western Railway (GWR) already had a station at Launceston, opened in 1865, and the North Cornwall Railway station was built adjacent to it. At Wadebridge, the line joined with the Bodmin and Wadebridge line; the original station had been expanded when the GWR line from Bodmin was opened in 1888. She hastily repudiated any such wish, all the more from a curious creeping feeling that the condemned wretch's destiny was becoming interwoven with her own; and having engaged a room for the night, sat down to think. Fortune, obdurate hitherto, showed her unexpected favour. On the Thursday before the Saturday fixed for the execution, Lodge remarked to her that he was going away from home for another day or two on business at a fair, and that he was sorry he could not take her with him.De haber sido una novela y no un relato, tal vez hubiera salido mejor. Thomas Hardy nos dibuja, como viene siendo costumbre en su obra, una tragedia rozando en lo bizarro, donde dos mujeres terminan por ser la perdición de la contraria. Lo gracioso, o no tanto, es que todo empieza por un hombre. Por su amor, más bien; y es que ese granjero próspero deja a su primera mujer para irse con una mucho más joven. Una chica preciosa, encantadora, que termina metida de lleno en lo que sólo podría describirse como una situación harto rara.

She did not reply, but turned her sad, soft glance upon him in such heart-swollen reproach that he looked sorry for his words, and added, 'I only meant it for your good, you know, Gertrude.' It was in April 1964, that the proposal of closing several lines including the route from Okehampton to Wadebridge was made by the Western Region as part of the Beeching cuts.It was an eighty-cow dairy, and the troop of milkers, regular and supernumerary, were all at work; for, though the time of year was as yet but early April, the feed lay entirely in water-meadows, and the cows were 'in full pail'. The hour was about six in the evening, and three-fourths of the large, red, rectangular animals having been finished off, there was opportunity for a little conversation. La historia comienza en un pequeño pueblo de la Inglaterra rural del siglo XIX, con el casamiento del granjero Lodge con Gertrude, una joven inocente y dulce que llega al lugar sin conocer los secretos del lugar, ni la existencia de Rhoda, una mujer que trabaja en la granja, y del hijo de esta. De aspecto afilado y hosco, Rhoda se mantiene serena y alejada, pero las gentes del pueblo murmuran.