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The railway station is on the west side of the River Taw near the Long Bridge and the junction of the A3125 and A361 roads; the town centre is on the east side. A footpath under the road gives access to the cycle and footpath along the disused railway towards Bideford which forms part of the South West Coast Path . [ 15 ]
There are 12 stations along the line, [4] although trains also serve Exeter St Davids and Exeter Central. Crediton and Newton St Cyres are also served by Dartmoor line services to Okehampton. [5] Crediton [6] and Eggesford [7] stations are both Listed grade II, as is an old railway warehouse outside Barnstaple station. [8]
A map of Barnstaple from 1937, showing the railway lines. Barnstaple railway station is the terminus of a branch line from Exeter known as the Tarka Line after a local connection with Tarka the Otter. The station is near the end of the Long Bridge, on the opposite bank of the Taw to the town centre.
Barnstaple Long Bridge is a medieval bridge linking Tawstock with Barnstaple in North Devon, England, spanning the River Taw. One of the largest medieval bridges in Britain, it is a Grade I listed building and ancient monument. [1] [2] Another major medieval bridge, the Bideford Long Bridge over the River Torridge, is a few miles away. [3] [4]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Barnstaple Long Bridge; M. ... Barnstaple Quay railway station; Queen's Theatre, Barnstaple ...
The L&B closed in 1935. The main line closed, along with the station, in October 1970. During the 1980s and early 1990s the old LSWR signal box was operated as a small museum for the L&B and the station building was in use as a restaurant. The signal box is now (2007) empty, but the station building is now used as a school.
It crossed the River Taw by a curved bridge there and provided a new Barnstaple Town station – the original station was on the south side of Barnstaple Bridge, and was referred to as the Old Station, but became formally known as Barnstaple Junction. As first offered to the Board of Trade Inspector, Lt Col Hutchinson, the old station ...
The Barnstaple Western Bypass is a congestion-relief scheme designed to take road traffic away from the town centre of Barnstaple, a market town in Devon, South West England. Construction of the new road started in the Spring of 2005 and it was opened on 23 May 2007. Barnstaple Western Bypass during construction Completed bridge over the River Taw