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Title: History Gallery - Plymouth Millbay Post by: grahame on April 11, 2019, 08:20:09 From Plymouth Live (https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/history/gallery/rise-fall-plymouths-lost-railway-2746328) - some interesting history in words and pictures
Quote Time was when thousands of people poured into and out of this building every week – however its run as one of Plymouth’s busiest passenger train stations came to an abrupt end with the Blitz of 1941. Millbay Station was actually Plymouth’s first railway station (if you don’t count Plympton which was well outside the town boundaries then): it had opened, amidst much celebrating, in 1849. Initially criticised for being a relatively unimpressive structure, the station was later improved and although damaged in the war, the buildings remained open for goods traffic for another 30 years. The last train to run out of here left Millbay on June 30, 1971 and in 1973 the railway bridge over Union Street, carrying trains in and out of here, was demolished. Title: Re: History Gallery - Plymouth Millbay Post by: Pb_devon on April 11, 2019, 18:06:06 Chris Robinson is ever dependable for accurate historical info. However, as for the rest of the Herald........ 😉
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