Ingra Tor Halt railway station

Ingra Tor Halt
Ingra Tor Halt
	Site of Ingra Tor Halt
General information
Location	Princetown, West Devon ; England
Coordinates	50°31′54″N4°02′21″W / 50.5318°N 4.0392°W Coordinates: 50°31′54″N4°02′21″W / 50.5318°N 4.0392°W
Grid reference	SX5557272219
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
2 March 1936	Station opens
3 March 1956	Station closed to passengers

Last updated July 20, 2022

Ingra Tor Halt railway station was located on the 10.5 mile long single track Princetown Railway in Devon, England, running from Yelverton to Princetown with four intermediate stations.^[3] It was opened with only a basic wood platform and shelter in connection with the short-lived re-opening of the adjacent quarry. Its later traffic was entirely walkers and it was retained in an attempt to counter competition from local bus services and encourage tourist traffic.^[2]

History

The branch line was authorised in 1878 and opened on 11 August 1883.^[4] Yelverton was the junction for the line when the halt opened, two other stations had been added to the line in the 1920s, Burrator and Sheepstor Halt in 1924, King Tor Halt in 1936.^[5] Much of the route followed the course of the old Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway.^[2]

The freight traffic on the branch line included granite from the rail served quarries^[2] 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.^[2] The track was lifted in December 1956.^[6]

Much of the old track formation now forms the route of the Dousland to Princetown Railway Track,^[2] and only the concrete base of the shelter at the halt remains.^[2]

Micro-history

At the time of the opening of the halt in 1936 the single fares were: to Princetown, 11½d First Class or 7d Second Class; to Burrator Halt, 9d and 5½d; to King Tor Halt, 7½d and 4½d; to Dousland, 1s 1d and 7½d; to Yelverton, 1s 5d and 10d; and to Plymouth, Millbay, 3s 8d and 2s 3d. A Cheap Day Return ticket to Plymouth cost 2s 3d Third Class; or to Princetown and back for 7d.^[7]

At one time a notice at the halt stated that passengers should keep dogs on a leash due to the presence of adders.^[2] This is now in the Plymouth Railway Circle collection and can be seen in the Lee Moor Tramway Shed which is generally opened on special event days at Buckfastleigh Station on the South Devon Railway.^{[ citation needed ]}

Services

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Burrator and Sheepstor Halt Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Princetown Railway		King Tor Halt Line and station closed

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The Princetown Railway was a 10¼ mile single track branch railway line in Devon, England, that ran from Yelverton on the Plymouth to Tavistock line, to Princetown via four intermediate stations, Dousland, Burrator and Sheepstor Halt, Ingra Tor Halt and King Tor Halt. The line closed in 1956 and today forms part of a popular cycling and walking route.

Dousland railway station, originally opened at Dousland Barn in 1883 was located on the 10.5 mile long single track branch railway line in Devon, England, running from Yelverton to Princetown with eventually four intermediate stops, three being halts and one at Dousland as a fully fledged station.

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King Tor Halt railway station was located on the 10.5 mile long single track branch railway line in Devon, England, running from Yelverton to Princetown with four intermediate stations. It was opened with only a basic wood platform and shelter in connection with the adjacent granite quarry and the associated worker's houses. Its later traffic was entirely walkers and like Ingra Tor Halt it was retained in an attempt to counter competition from local bus services and encourage tourist traffic.

Burrator and Sheepstor Halt railway station was located on the 10.5 mile long single track branch railway line in Devon, England, running from Yelverton to Princetown with eventually four intermediate stations. The station was opened as Burrator Platform and became Burrator Halt when it was opened to the public, the name being changed again in 1929 to Burrator and Sheepstor Halt.

References

Notes

↑ Butt, Page 127
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Mitchell, Page 114
↑ Moseley, Brian (October 2011). "The Route, 1947 [GWR Princetown Branch]". The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History. Plymouth Data. Archived from the original on 23 August 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
↑ Moseley, Brian (December 2011). "Princetown Railway". The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History. Plymouth Data. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
↑ Atterbury, Page 34
↑ Moseley, Brian (August 2012). "Princetown Branch [BR]". The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History. Plymouth Data. Archived from the original on 7 March 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
↑ Moseley, Brian (December 2012). "Princetown Branch [GWR]". The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History. Plymouth Data. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2015.

Sources

Atterbury, P. (2006) Branch Line Britain: A Nostalgic Journey Celebrating a Golden Age. Newton Abbot : David & Charles.
Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
Mitchell, David (1994). British Railways Past and Present - Devon. Wadenhoe : Past and Present. ISBN 1-85895-058-9.

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[b-1] Butt, Page 127

[mt-2] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Mitchell, Page 114

[3] Moseley, Brian (October 2011). "The Route, 1947 [GWR Princetown Branch]". The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History. Plymouth Data. Archived from the original on 23 August 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2015.

[4] Moseley, Brian (December 2011). "Princetown Railway". The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History. Plymouth Data. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2015.

[5] Atterbury, Page 34

[6] Moseley, Brian (August 2012). "Princetown Branch [BR]". The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History. Plymouth Data. Archived from the original on 7 March 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2015.

[7] Moseley, Brian (December 2012). "Princetown Branch [GWR]". The Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History. Plymouth Data. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2015.

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