EPW054889 ENGLAND (1937). The Great Western Docks, Plymouth, 1937

Military Hospital, now Devonport high School for Boys

Rusty Anchor

Railway connection from Devonport Station to Stonehouse Pool.

Railway to Millbay Station (just out of the picture)

Passenger vehicles and platform canopy mark the GWR's Ocean Terminal. Perhaps the small steamers tied up at the adjacent quays are the GWR tenders from bring the passengers and mail ashore from liners standing off by the Plymouth Breakwater.

Somewhere along here was Stonehouse Pool Station on Stonehouse Pool Quay. Originally built as a landing point for passengers and mail taken off trans-Atlantic liners by tender (steam launches), for a fast journey by train to London on the London and South Western Railway. In this way a day could saved on the Atlantic crossing rather than remaining on the ship to Southampton. The LSWR built a 'commodious' station with waiting rooms, buffet etc., for both the arriving passengers and the 'meeters and greeters'. The competition with the GWR for this traffic, with much fast running to London, may in part be seen as the context for the disastrous Salisbury accident of 1906, which brought the LSWR service to an end.

Devonport Station of the London and South Western Railway.

Stonehouse Pool

Royal Marine Barracks

Glasgow Wharf

Trinity Pier

Millbay Pier

Eddystone Terrace