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Torrington railway station [2] was a railway station located in Great Torrington, Devon. [3] It was closed by British Railways in 1965 as part of the Beeching cuts . [ 4 ]
The Tarka Valley Railway in Devon, England, is a heritage railway that plans to rebuild the Torrington to Bideford section of the Barnstaple to Halwill Junction railway line. So far a short demonstration line of 300 yd (274 metres) of track in the direction of Bideford plus a siding alongside the old coal dock have been re-laid.
Torrington station on 15 June 1969 looking towards Bideford. The branch line from Barnstaple to Bideford was extended to Great Torrington in July 1872 by the London and South Western Railway, which built a railway station and locomotive depot in the town. The station was always named 'Torrington', not 'Great Torrington'.
Guilford Rail System: Primarily a heritage railroad, but also provides freight service between Waterbury and Torrington. Railroad Museum of New England [1] New England Central Railroad: NECR 1995 Central Vermont Railway: Operates a main line between New London and the Massachusetts state line, via Willimantic. Genesee & Wyoming [1] Pan Am ...
Built as cheaply as possible, and partly following the alignment of the former tramway, the railway had continuous sharp curves and ruling gradients in the range of 1 in 45 to 1 in 50 (2.22 % to 2%) The stations on the line were: [6] Torrington (L&SWR station) Watergate Halt (opened 1926) Yarde Halt (opened 1926) Dunsbear Halt (Marland Clay Co ...
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Steam locomotives were used on both the main railway and the internal lines in the clay pits. In 1925 the main line was replaced with a standard gauge branch of the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway. The Torrington and Marland was cut back to a 1½ mile stub and the internal quarry lines.