# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Tyrwhitt's Tramway Talk by Simon Dell
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm – Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join Simon for his talk about the The Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway at Yelverton Open Group. Visitors welcome for a modest donation on the night.
Tyrwhitt’s Tramway
(Properly known as
The Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway)
This talk by Simon Dell follows a few years of research and walking the whole route from Princetown to Sutton Harbour in Plymouth.
During the Georgian period long before steam railway engines arrived in Devon Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, builder of Princetown and the Prison, had a dream to develop Dartmoor into an agricultural and industrial heartland of Devon.
He dreamed of a tramway to connect Princetown with the harbour in Plymouth, 25 miles away, to export granite and to import important commodities to the village.
This tramway was the first ‘iron railroad’ in Devon and involved building one of the earliest railway tunnels in the world.
The story is intriguing and little known.
Many visitors to Dartmoor will have never heard of Tyrwitt’s Tramway and even fewer will know of the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway, possibly confusing it with the Great Western Railway steam engine service which was built over much of the tramway in 1883.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/calstock/tyrwhitts-tramway-talk-by-simon-dell/200028927039133
- **Event Categories**: nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 65

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200028927039133?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=calstock-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Calstock
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Yelverton War Memorial Hall
- **lat**: 50.488965756029
- **long**: -4.0842325245688
- **full address**: Yelverton War Memorial Hall, Yelverton, Devon, Calstock, United Kingdom

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Tyrwhitt's Tramway Talk by Simon Dell being held?
  - **A:** Tyrwhitt's Tramway Talk by Simon Dell takes place on Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm to Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 at 09:00 pm at Yelverton War Memorial Hall, Yelverton, Devon, Calstock, United Kingdom.

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