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To celebrate Railway 200 we’ve raided the archives to bring you our top historical facts from stations across Devon and Cornwall. Enjoy!
Guano (bird droppings) was once big business on Topsham Quay's lost branch line
Until 1859, Truro's clocks were 20 minutes behind London's, but the opening of the line from Plymouth meant it was time to catch up!
When the St Ives Bay Line opened in 1877, GWR decided the attractive cove needed a better name - and it stuck!
Until the 1960s, trains in the Tamar Valley would be loaded up with locally grown flowers and fruit, mostly bound for London
For more than 60 years, one of the shortest train journeys in the country was from Plymouth station to Mutley station - a distance of less than 600 yards (550 metres).
Until the 1950s, when the circus came to Newquay the whole show arrived by train - from the big top to the elephants!
When building Falmouth Town station, part of the platform from the closed Perranporth Beach Halt was transported from coast to coast to be reused.
Project funded by GWR's Customer and Community Improvement Fund and CrossCountry Trains' Community Engagement Fund
