sentences:  The company was formed on 5 February 1870, principally by the shareholders in the West Cornwall Railway.The following year it took over the "Little Western" from the Scilly Isles Steam Navigation Company which had been operating on the route since 1858.An advertisement in The Cornishman newspaper on 25 July 1878 gives the timetable for the Royal Mail Steamers "Queen of the Bay" and the "Lady of the Isles".