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YEALMPTON BRANCH (BRWR)

CLOSURE

Once the Second World War had ended, the situation slowly reverted to passengers using the buses in preference to the railway and another announcement appeared stating that the line would be closed from on and from Monday October 6th 1947.  The last public passenger train in fact ran on the preceding Saturday, October 4th.

Freight train leaving Brixton Road Station in the 1950s.

Freight train leaving Brixton Road in the 1950s.

Freight traffic was once again accommodated, mainly animal feed for the farmers and coal for the locals, but that dwindled as the motor vehicle took its strangle-hold and the freight traffic eventually ceased with the final run from Yealmpton on Friday February 26th 1960.  The official closure date was the following Monday, the 29th.

The last passenger train of all over the Yealmpton branch was run by the Plymouth Railway Circle on Saturday February 27th 1960, when 4549 hauled a rake of brake-vans.  Work on lifting the track started in November 1962 but the extremely bad weather of December 1962 delayed completion.

 

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