View from the train.

Goonbarrow Junction Signal Box on the Par to Newquay Branch line, controlling access to the Clay works sidings.

Goonbarrow Junction got its name when the branch opened in 1893: previous to that there was a box there called Rosevear Siding. A small box (13 levers) called Goonbarrow Junction opened in 1893 and was replaced by the present box in 1910.

The branch line between Goonbarrow Junction and Carbean/ Gunheath was very lightly built and was restricted to the smallest locomotives. The Cornwall Minerals Railway used tiny 0-6-0 saddle tanks, often working in pairs.