Station Road

One of the most common new street names in the expanding Victorian Britain, Station Road is still one of the most common street names in Plymouth. There is one at Tamerton Foliot, leading out towards the old station at Warleigh Point; there is another at Plympton, leading down from the Ridgeway to the site of the old station there.

At Plymstock we find a third at Elburton where the trains no longer run and in Keyham there is a fourth near the old halt, leading off at right angles from the railway line there.

Time was when there were others too: in Stoke near the old King's Road station which stood on the site now occupied by the College of Further Education; off Union Street, leading up to Millbay Station, where the Pavilions now are and at Mutley, leading down from Tavistock Road to the long since gone Mutley Station and even a Station Square in St. Budeaux.

EH 04 February 2005