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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 1879 and formed an important junction between the now-closed Bude Branch and North Cornwall line. It closed in 1966 along with the lines which it served, a casualty of the Beeching Report.
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.
The North Cornwall Railway Company, supported by the LSWR, was established to develop the northern part of the Cornish peninsula; its line was to leave the Okehampton–Holsworthy line line at Halwill Junction and continue through Launceston to Wadebridge Station.
The station nameboard continued to be worded "Halwill for Beaworthy, Junction for Bude, North Cornwall and Torrington Lines" [4] [6] Col Cobb shows a first station at Holsworthy and a second station to the east, replacing the first. This is misleading; when the line was extended from Holsworthy to Bude, re-location of sidings was necessary, but ...
This name brings to mind the former significance of the two villages, as home to an important railway junction, where the North Cornwall Railway (forming part of a main line railway from Exeter to Plymouth) diverged from the earlier Okehampton to Bude Line, see Halwill Junction railway station. Portions for the two routes separated and rejoined ...
Hallaton railway station; Halwill Junction railway station; Harby and Stathern railway station; Heaton Park tram stop; High Harrington railway station; High Shields railway station; Hillington railway station; Holsworthy railway station
Halton railway station (Lancashire) Halwill Junction railway station; Harburn railway station; Havenstreet railway station; Hawkhead railway station; Helmshore railway station; Helpston railway station; Henfield railway station; Henstridge railway station; Hethersett railway station; Holsworthy railway station; Holt Junction railway station
Halberton Halt railway station; Halwill Junction railway station; Hatherleigh railway station; Heathfield railway station (Devon) Hele and Bradninch railway station; Hemyock railway station; Hole railway station; Holsworthy railway station; Horrabridge railway station