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Princetown
A horse-drawn granite tramway opened in 1823, running about 25 miles from the Foggintor and King's Tor quarries to a wharf near Plymouth. Its upper section was later reused by the steam-worked Princetown Railway from 1883.
Colebrook Village, Plympton
Sturdy stone supports of a Victorian railway viaduct, silent witnesses to Dartmoor's industrial past among the moorland.
Ruins of a Victorian peat works above the Rattlebrook, served by a railway built in 1879 that hauled peat nearly 5 miles down to Bridestowe station.
Dartmoor Railway Association supporting Okehampton's railway - Dartmoor Railway Association, Okehampton, Devon
