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...
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The North Cornwall Railway (NCR) also known as the North Cornwall Line, was a standard gauge railway line running from Halwill in Devon, to Padstow in...
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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...
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line and opened through to Halwill Junction as the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway. A passenger service operated until 1965, when the line...
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Halwill Junction Railway Station was a railway station in Halwill Junction, near the villages of Halwill and Beaworthy in Devon, England. It opened in...
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Headcorn and Maidstone Junction Light Railway (1906) Trentham, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Silverdale Light Railway (1914) Southern Heights Light Railway (1929)...
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H. F. Stephens (redirect from Colonel Stephens and his Railways)
British light railway civil engineer and manager. He was engaged in engineering and building, and later managing, 16 light railways in England and Wales...
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Torrington and Marland Railway was rebuilt as a standard gauge line and opened through to Halwill Junction as the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway...
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Okehampton–Bude line (redirect from Okehampton to bude railway line)
available and brought in to the district by train and the canal fell into disuse. In 1925 the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway opened, connecting...
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Tarka Trail (category Footpaths in Devon)
– between Barnstaple, Bideford and Torrington North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway - between Torrington and Meeth Halt Below Braunton, the...
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Torrington and Marland Railway, built to carry bricks and clay on a three-feet gauge, which in turn was subsumed in 1925 by the North Devon and Cornwall Junction...
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Petrockstowe (category Civil parishes in Devon)
the Marland and Meeth clay pits. In 1925 this became the basis of the northern section of the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway, which remained...
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The railway is built on the trackbed of the former standard gauge North Cornwall Railway. The first railway to reach Launceston was the Launceston and South...
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Joint Railway Committee (1⁄2 LNER, 1⁄2 London Transport) East Kent Light Railway Kent and East Sussex Railway Mersey Railway North Devon and Cornwall Junction...
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Southern Railway group at the grouping of the railways in 1923, but it closed in September 1935. The North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway opened...
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The West Cornwall Railway was a railway company in Cornwall, Great Britain, formed in 1846 to construct a railway between Penzance and Truro. It purchased...
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and Cornwall Junction Railway was authorised in 1864 to construct the branch but again, a lack of funds prevented the work. The Great Western Railway...
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(/ˈtɪvərtən/ TIV-ər-tən) is a town and civil parish in Devon, England, and the commercial and administrative centre of the Mid Devon district. The population in...
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Opened in 1925, Meeth Halt was a small railway station on the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway, a private line until it became part of the...
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Hole Railway Station was a small halt on the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway in the U.K. between Torrington and Halwill Junction, serving...
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Hatherleigh Railway Station was a station on the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway between Torrington and Halwill Junction, serving the town...
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of Merton and Petrockstowe, has been the site of ball clay extraction for many years, and the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway ran through...
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the Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER). The line to Barnstaple was then opened by the North Devon Railway on 1 August 1854. Both these railway companies...
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independent light railways, namely the East Kent Light Railway, the Kent and East Sussex Railway and the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway. The Southern...
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Peters Marland (category Civil parishes in Devon)
and tile works here until 1940; many houses in Great Torrington are built of its cream-coloured bricks. The North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway...
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well-used halt on the initially privately run North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway. Opened in 1925 and closed to passenger traffic 40 years later...
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Yarde Halt railway station was an intermediate halt on the initially privately run North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway, opened in 1926 to...
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Marland Railway then became the basis of the northern section of the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway, which opened in 1925 and remained...
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Liskeard railway station (Cornish: Lyskerrys) serves the town of Liskeard in Cornwall, England. The station is approximately 18 miles (29 km) west of Plymouth...
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Meeth (redirect from Meeth, Devon)
until 1982, the branch railway line from Halwill Junction to Torrington, the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway, ran through Meeth, allowing...
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