However, in 1897, the railway authorities of the time decided that this name promoted an unrefined image of the village due to the association with beer, and therefore changed the name to Bere Ferrers.

[4] Through services beyond Bere Alston were withdrawn on 6 May 1968 and the line was reduced to a single track on 7 September 1970.

The men are buried in a Plymouth war cemetery, and a plaque was unveiled in 2001 in their memory in the village centre.

[5][6] Bere Ferrers is served by GWR trains on the Tamar Valley Line from Gunnislake to Plymouth.

[may be outdated as of March 2022] The line is also part of the Dartmoor Sunday Rover network of integrated bus and rail routes.