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RAILWAYS  |  RAILWAY STATIONS INDEX

ELBURTON CROSS STATION

Created:  20 January 2012 

Elburton Cross Station, on the Great Western Railway and British Railways' Yealmpton Branch, hardly deserved to be called a "Station" at all as it was little more than a single platform on a single line passing through Elburton Village.  It was the last Station on the Yealmpton line within the modern City of Plymouth.

The Station was opened by the Great Western Railway on Monday January 17th 1898.

On the platform was a wooden booking office cum waiting room and a cast-iron gent's urinal.

Railway services were withdrawn as from Monday July 7th 1930 and the station building was demolished.  A train service was re-instated due to war-time fuel shortages on Monday November 3rd 1941.

Final closure to passenger traffic was from Monday October 6th 1947.  There were no freight facilities.

 

Sources:

Kingdom, A R, "The Yealmpton Branch", Oxford Publishing Company, Risinghurst, Oxfordshire, 1974.

©  Brian Moseley, Plymouth, UK

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