 Opened as Burrator Platform on Monday 4 February 1924 the station at first only catered for workmen employed on the raising of the Burrator and Sheepstor Dams when Burrator Reservoir was enlarged.This service consisted of a morning train that left Princetown at 6.27am for and and then, after collecting workmen off the 6.20am from Millbay Station, left Yelverton Station at 6.58am, stopping at Burrator and Sheepstor Platform at 7.05am to set them down.On Mondays to Fridays the 4.05pm from Princetown called at Burrator at 4.30pm to pick up workmen for the homeward journey.