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This was a station with a trainshed and main building on the east side, with a goods shed on the west. It became a Great Western Railway station and was south east of the town, over the River Tavy. The competing London and South Western Railway station was to the north of the town.

This station was the terminus of the 1859 South Devon and Tavistock Railway from Tavistock Junction, which became part of the South Devon Railway in 1865. Also in 1865 it was extended north and then west to Launceston [GWR] by the Launceston and South Devon Railway, part of the South Devon Railway in 1874. It was absorbed by the Great Western Railway in 1878. The line was generally single track.

Closed 1962 to passengers and accessed from the north for goods until 1964. It was survived by the Tavistock North station until 1968.

The cattle market which adjoined the station survives as does the bridge over Pixon Lane at the south end of the station. Nothing survives of the station and there has been a road realignment through the north end of the site.

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