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 […]
Princetown railway news reports
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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, […]
Western Morning News – Monday 23 September 1946 MR. C. WINSOR Princetown Stationmaster Retires After 10 Years Retirement of Mr. C. Winsor, stationmaster at Princetown for the last ten years, after 46 years’ service with the Great Western Railway, is announced in the September issue of the company’s magazine. Mr. […]
Research regarding Merrivale Rail plan here. Western Morning News – Thursday 14 January 1937
Western Morning News – Friday 04 November 1881
Western Morning News – Thursday 06 November 1930 PRINCETOWN STATION ROBBERY. Thomas Sidney Wrayson, aged 28, painter, pleaded ” Guilty to breaking and entering the booking-office of Princetown Railway Station during the night of October 15, and stealing 4s. 7 1/2d. in money, a suit case and contents, packets cigarettes, […]
Tavistock Gazette – Friday 29 December 1882 Serious Disturbance Among Navvies at Princetown A Prisoner Rescued Sergt Richards and PC Vanstone Injured Several Men Arrested Partly because it was holiday time and partly on account of the dense fog and wet weather which prevailed on the moor on Tuesday last, […]
Tavistock Gazette – Friday 24 August 1883