Millpool
The easy access holiday carriage with a view!
St Germans - Cornwall - PL12 5LU
Built on environmentally sensitive principles, with optimum accessibility in mind, Millpool offers bijou and characterful accommodation for wheelchair-users and able-bodied people alike. We have worked hard to ensure that Millpool is practical without being clinical and that it retains its unique railway carriage character.
Millpool’s open plan design gives it a feeling of light and space and although not adjacent to the railway line, the views over the surrounding countryside are magnificent. Packed with original features, from picnic basket signs, to cast iron luggage racks and brass match strikers, Millpool was built by the GWR at Swindon in 1897. It is a 31 foot Brake Third with 3 third class compartments and a guard’s compartment complete with duckets (a ducket protrudes beyond the normal profile of the train and has narrow windows so that the guard could sit in it and look along the train without putting his head out of the window).
Pets are welcome and will enjoy the enclosed terrace and the ten acres of private woodland just a few minutes walk away. Our pets page has more information. Unfortunately the woodland does require "off-road" capabilities.
There is plenty to do in the area for those with limited mobility. To make sure Millpool will be suitable for your needs, please take a look at our Accessibility Guide. We have aimed for the optimum accessibility we can manage within the confines of space and are always happy to talk through any requirements you may have in advance of your holiday. For holiday planning, please visit our Out and About in a Wheelchair page.
St Germans is in the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Its location on the river Lynher with its Site of Special Scientific Interest status makes St Germans the perfect base for your bird watching, cycling or walking holiday. Furthermore, the railway station and Railholiday are within the beautiful St Germans Conservation Area. The coast with its beaches, fishing villages, magnificent cliffs and coastal footpath is only a short bus or train ride away. For more about St Germans and South East Cornwall, please visit our St Germans page.
Millpool measures approximately 31 feet by 8 feet (9.4m x 2.2m) and offers the following facilities :
- Inspected by Visit England National Accessibility Scheme in the past and awarded M3 status (suitable for independent wheelchair users) prior to the closure of the scheme
- Will sleep a maximum of 3, but is designed for parties of 1‐2
- Galley kitchen with fridge, hob and oven with microwave and grill
- Lounge diner with TV/DVD/CD, DAB radio, single sofa bed and riser chair one of which can be removed to create more wheelchair space
- Wet room with toilet, shower with fold down seat, washbasin and shaver socket
- Bedroom with option of single adjustable bed or conventional double bed
- Wireless and wired free broadband internet access
- Ample hot water and central heating from our biomass boiler with electrical backup
- Fenced patio with seating and chiminea
- Free dedicated car parking space by Millpool with level access
- Laundry facilities, deep freeze, games room and information centre
- Pets welcome
- All energy, water, linen and towels included in the price
Book your holiday in Millpool online now or check availability and prices using the calendar above. If you prefer, we are pleased to accept telephone enquiries and bookings at any time on 01503 230783 / 07776 261192 or go to our Prices page for more information.
Please follow these links for more about the Carriage Inventory, Accessibility, Visitors Comments or the History of the carriage.
The images below show some of our accessibility features. If required we can change the double bed to a single profiling bed. The kitchen is designed to be accessible for wheelchair users. We have a shower chair available should one be needed, a toilet riser, easy hold cutlery and an RNID smoke alarm.
This review was written by guests staying in Millpool at the beginning of September 2026.
Our stay in Millpool has been fabulous!
The thought put into the renovation to make the carriage accessible is just wonderful.
The authenticity of the carriage is incredible. Such a useable space with everything we needed, yet still with the charm of a real carriage.
The outdoor space is lovely, the outdoor storage, plus undercover bit – again a real bonus.
A holiday with disabilities is never an easy choice. However, Millpool has exceeded our expectations, and we will definitely be back.
If you can create such a fantastic accessible space in such a small footprint, which you’ve done so well – I think other places could learn a huge amount from you!
Accessibility shouldn’t be difficult – you have proved this!
Thank you.
The Pennys
PS: the information provided before arrival was so helpful and made planning our stay much easier as we didn’t have to pack the ‘just in case’ things.
