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The Princetown Railway was a 10.5 mile long Great Western Railway built single track branch railway line in Devon, England, that ran from Horrabridge and later from Yelverton, both on the South Devon and Tavistock line, to Princetown via four intermediate stations, Dousland, Burrator and Sheepstor Halt, Ingra Tor Halt and King Tor Halt.
First proposed by the South Devon and Tavistock Railway Company as early as 1852 the line was authorised in 1878 and did not open until 11 August 1883. On opening the line ran from Horrabridge through Dousland to Princetown. In 1885 the newly opened Yelverton replaced Horrabridge as the start of the line and three other stations were added to the line in the 1920s and 1930s, Burrator and Sheepstor Halt in 1924, King Tor Halt in 1928, and Ingra Tor Halt in 1936.
The line was operated by the Great Western Railway, but owned by the Princetown Railway until January 1st 1922 when the line became part of the GWR network. The line passed to British Railways (Western Region) in 1948 and closed on 3 March 1956