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Home » Princetown railway news reports » Dartmoor rail closure ‘will cut off 2,000’

1950's Princetown railway news reports

Dartmoor rail closure ‘will cut off 2,000’

by Ian Waugh|Published

Bradford Observer – Wednesday 27 April 1955

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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.

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