DSCN1199 National Holidays 38 (NH10 PSH) in Dartmouth - 13 Jun 2013

Thursday 13 June 2013 (1040) – National Holidays Setra S415GT-HD number 38 (NH10 PSH) seen at Dartmouth during a day out on a Torquay based tour.

The brown and cream building on the right, now a restaurant, was once Dartmouth’s railway station although Dartmouth didn’t have a railway!

Early railway builders were frustrated in their efforts to create a rail link to Dartmouth and so the line from Torbay terminated at Kingswear on the east bank of the River Dart with a ferry connection providing the cross-river link. As home to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth generated much traffic and so had its own railway station to sell tickets and provide passenger facilities. It is said that the Station Master at Dartmouth was paid more than his counterpart at Kingswear as a result of salaries being paid according to passenger throughput and ticket sales.