Place Princetown Grid reference SX5867273436 Post-grouping Great Western Railway Original company Princetown Railway | Area West Devon Pre-grouping Princetown Railway 11 August 1883 Station opened Platforms in use 1 | |
Similar Dousland railway station, St Olaves railway station, King Tor Halt railway st, Ingra Tor Halt railway st, Lutterworth railway station | ||
Princetown railway station, opened in 1883 was the terminus of the 10.5 mile long single track branch line in Devon, England, running from Yelverton with eventually four intermediate stops, three being halts and one at Dousland as a fully fledged station.
History
The branch line was authorised in 1878 and opened on 11 August 1883. Yelverton was the junction for the line when the station opened, three other stations had been added to the line : Burrator and Sheepstor Halt in 1924, King Tor Halt in 1928, and Ingra Tor Halt in 1936. Much of the route followed the course of the old Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway. The freight traffic on the branch line included granite from the rail served quarries of Swelltor and Foggintor which were closed in 1906.
Owned by the Princetown Railway until 1 January 1922, the company then merged with the Great Western Railway (GWR). The line passed to British Railways (Western Region) in 1948 and closed on 3 March 1956.
The station had a single platform, a passing loop, goods yard, signal box, goods shed, an engine shed for two locomotives, a 180 foot long carriage shed and a turntable. The station buildings were all demolished soon after closure.
Much of the old track formation now forms the route of the Dousland to Princetown Railway Track.