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Last journey of the “Dartmoor Express”

by Ian Waugh|Published

Halifax Evening Courier – Thursday 01 March 1956

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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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