Devonport

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Devonport [GW] (1859-1949)
Devonport Albert Road (1949-1968)
Devonport (1968-)

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Station code: DPT National Rail
Where: West and South West England, England
Opened on the Cornwall Railway.

Description

This is a two platform station. The short Devonport Tunnel is just to the west and Devonport Albert Road Junction, for the later goods yard Devonport Goods which replaced a small yard to the west, was to the east.

Tags

Station
02/07/2023


Chronology Dates

  /  /1859Cornwall Railway
Line opened from Cornwall Junction (near Plymouth [Millbay]) to Truro as Broad Gauge. Stations opened at Devonport, Saltash, St Germans, Menheniot, Liskeard, Respryn, Lostwithiel, Par, St Austell, Grampound Road, Truro. Truro to Penwithers Junction (to connect with the West Cornwall Railway) opened as Standard Gauge.
  /  /1949Cornwall Railway
Devonport renamed Devonport Albert Road.
  /  /1968Cornwall Railway
Devonport Albert Road renamed Devonport.