Andrew Hamilton, guard, Dartmouth Steam Railway, Monastery Road, Paignton, writes: It is good to see that Mr and Mrs Holland are keeping the former Dartmouth Station, now the Station Restaurant, in good order. However, I must take issue with your writer, in that the building in question dates from 1889, not 1864. The building was authorised by the Great Western Railway Board at a cost of £4,680, and was completed shortly after the building of the GWR's portion of the Embankment. Prior to this, there was a pontoon with a fixed span and a hinged span bridge, with passengers booking their tickets at a small shed on the pontoon itself. All this is to be found in The Newton Abbot to Kingswear Railway by C.R. Potts, published by the Oakwood Press, which also contains an early photograph of the arrangement before 1889. Incidentally, it is also a commonly held fallacy that the station at Dartmouth was built in the expectation that the railway would be built on the Dartmouth side. There was a proposal to divert the line to Greenway, with a zigzag to the quay, and this was the proposal which was strenuously, and very reasonably, opposed by Mr Harvey, of Greenway House. The railway company had sugared the pill of a line terminating some way from Dartmouth by saying that Greenway would be a good jumping off point for a bridge over the Dart and a line to the town itself, but they had no money to do this, and Dartmouth might well have been stuck with a Greenway terminus.