Hatherleigh_railway_station

Hatherleigh railway station

Hatherleigh railway station

Former railway station in Devon, England


Hatherleigh Railway Station[1] was a station[2] on the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway between Torrington and Halwill Junction, serving the town of Hatherleigh. Hatherleigh was the largest place with a station on the line, though the town was almost two miles away. Like others on this line, the station itself was small but it was a passing place on the mainly single-track railway. The stationmaster at Hatherleigh also looked after the other stations on the line, even those, such as Petrockstow and Hole, that were staffed.

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The line was opened in 1925 and was operated by the Southern Railway, though it remained a private line until it became part of the Southern Region of British Railways[3] in 1948. The line closed in 1965[4] as part of the Beeching proposals, goods services having been withdrawn the previous year.


References

  1. Branch Lines to Torrington Mitchell,V & Smith,K: Midhurst, Middleton Press,1994 ISBN 1-873793-37-5
  2. "Discovering Britain's lost railways" Atterbury,P: Basingstoke, AA Publishing ISBN 978-0-7495-6370-7
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