GWR

Operation Pied Piper

During the early months of 1939, parents up and down the country received a letter from their local education authority advising them that they were in an area deemed at risk from bombing in the event of war, and that plans were being drawn up to evacuate children to...

Dartmouth Train Station – The Station with No Trains

Dartmouth Station has never been served by trains, and despite multiple plans during the 1850s to build a track to Dartmouth - nothing ever came to fruition. This was until the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway Company was formed such that a line could be built from Newton...

Operation Pied Piper

National History

During the early months of 1939, parents up and down the country received a letter from their local education authority advising them that they were in an area deemed at risk from bombing in the event of war, and that plans were being drawn up to evacuate children to...

Dartmouth Train Station – The Station with No Trains

Local History, Transport History

Dartmouth Station has never been served by trains, and despite multiple plans during the 1850s to build a track to Dartmouth - nothing ever came to fruition. This was until the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway Company was formed such that a line could be built from Newton...