OLD PLYMOUTH . UK
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RAILWAYS IN OLD PLYMOUTH  |  LAUNCESTON BRANCH
BRANCH LINE, PLYMOUTH STATION (MILLBAY) TO LAUNCESTON STATION

MARYTAVY SIGNAL BOX

Marytavy Signal Box (sic) was opened by the Great Western Railway Company on November 2nd 1875 in anticipation of the Launceston Branch being used by the London and South Western Railway Company the following year in exercise of their running rights over the Branch between Lydford Station  and Plymouth.

It had a Saxby and Farmer lever frame, about which nothing is known.

The London and South Western Railway Company ceased to use the Launceston Branch in 1890 when they opened their own direct line from Lydford to Devonport, via Bere Alston.  Marytavy Signal Box was closed on and as from August 1894 but the building remained in situ until the end of the life of the Station on December 31st 1962, when the Launceston Branch closed.