Here is an article from my copy of Every Spotters Weekly 13 June 1953 written by R. C. Sambourne. Giving an insight into the branch three years before it’s closure in 1956. The terminus of this branch stands 1,400 feet above sea level in the County of Devon and is […]
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On 7th July 1883, Colonel Yolland of the Board of Trade conducted an inspection of the line but discovered several unsatisfactory issues. Consequently, he declined to grant the approval for opening. Following some alterations, he made a second visit, and the line commenced operations on 11th August 1883, without any […]
FOR TRIAL AT ASSIZE PRINCETOWN STATION BROKEN INTO Thomas Sydney Wrayson, no fixed abode, was at Tavistock yesterday committed for trial at Devon Assize on a charge of breaking into the Great Western Railway offices Princetown on the night of October 15-16 and stealing a suit case and contents valued […]
Damage by lightning House Struck At Princetown A renewal of the gale accompanied by thunder, lightning, and heavy rain, was experienced in the West yesterday. At Princetown where there was a 90 miles an hour wind, the house of the station master on the Great Western Railway was struck by […]
Cornish & Devon Post – Saturday 01 October 1904
Western Morning News – Tuesday 14 April 1885 The Yelverton Station Sir, – Can any of your readers inform me why the new Yelverton Station, between Bickleigh and Horrabridge, has yet to be opened? There are way authorities have shown their appreciation of the convenience such a station would be […]
Western Morning News – Monday 21 January 1895 Railway Dinner At Princetown At Princetown branch line, GWR employees annual dinner Mr. John Higman, stationmaster at Princetown, presided, and was supported by Rev WA Badger, Messr W. Duke, A Row, J Forbes, J Crocker, A Pope (London), W Stanbury and M […]
The Scotsman – Friday 13 March 1891 The experience of some of the travellers and officials on the branch lines of the Great Western Railway were most alarming. One train from Princetown to Yelverton, on one of the wildest parts of Dartmoor, was snowed up from Monday night until Wednesday […]
Western Morning News – Monday 22 January 1923 LATE MR. H. COWLING FUNERAL OF PRINCETOWN STATIONMASTER. The funeral took place Saturday of Mr. Henry Cowling, late stationmaster at Princetown, who died last Monday after a brief illness. The coffin was conveyed to Dousland by train and carried from the station to Walkhampton, […]
Research regarding Merrivale Rail plan here. Western Morning News – Thursday 14 January 1937