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Home » Princetown railway news reports » Closure of Railway Line

1950's

Closure of Railway Line

by Ian Waugh|Published

British Transport

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Line’s Future Undecided – BR Statement on Dartmoor Railway

Liverpool Echo – Thursday 05 May 1955

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Railway Line Closure ‘Would Isolate 2,000’

Birmingham Daily Post – Wednesday 27 April 1955

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Dartmoor rail closure ‘will cut off 2,000’

Bradford Observer – Wednesday 27 April 1955

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Princetown May Keep Its Railway

Birmingham Daily Post – Saturday 10 September 1955

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I recommend:

A highly informative DVD, produced by Aarchive Films, called 'Yelverton to Princetown, Rails Across The Moor'. It includes old footage of the line and recollections of those who remember this beautiful railway branch. Details here.

Gerald Worth worked on the Princetown Branch line in the period up to its closure. Some of the pictures that he took of the line and the men that worked on it are here.

Images of the Princetown Branch from the Cornwall Railway Society are here.

More online:

Princetown Railway
Princetown Branch
GWR Princetown Branch - The Route, 1947
British Railways Princetown Branch
Princetown Railway Company
Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway Company

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