North Devon Light Railway

The north devon and cornwall junction light railway was a railway built to serve numerous china clay pits that lay in the space between the london and south western railway s torrington branch an extension of the north devon railway group and halwill an important rural junction on the north cornwall railway and its okehampton to bude line. The north devon and cornwall junction light railway was a railway built to serve numerous ball clay pits that lay in the space between the london and south western railway s torrington branch. The north devon cornwall junction light railway nd cjlr was a nominally independant railway in the north of the counties of devon and cornwall which became the last new passenger branch line to be built in the south west of england.

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By jack benson august 20 2019 in the railways of cornwall.

North devon light railway. The only steam railway in the uk where passengers travel in victorian railway carriages designed in the 1890 s. Originally planned as a broad gauge 7 ft 0 in 2 140 mm feeder to the bristol exeter railway. North devon and cornwall junction light railway. Closing to passengers in 1965 the section between meeth and barnstable remained open for freight but by the 1980 s was moribund.

This led to a great increase in production and was a factor in the opening in 1925 of the north devon cornwall junction light railway between torrington and halwill junction which superceded the mineral line. At 964 feet above sea level woody bay is the highest railway station in southern england and home of the world s only new build american steam engine lyn. However the track would be so small that no trains could operate on it. The north devon and cornwall junction light railway was a railway built to serve numerous ball clay pits that lay in the space between the london and south western railway s torrington branch an extension of the north devon railway group and halwill an important rural junction on the north cornwall railway and its okehampton to bude line.

Plans have been submitted to lay a section of railway line on a former track in north devon which was closed back in 1970. 1982 1985 another instalment in my exploration of the former southern railway routes in the west country. The north devon railway was a railway company which operated a line from cowley bridge junction near exeter to bideford in devon england later becoming part of the london and south western railway s system. The railway was opened in 1925 and operated by the southern railway and latterly british railways southern region before passing to british railways western region in the early 1960s.

It was opened in 1925 and was closed to passenger traffic in 1965. North devon and cornwall junction light railway.