Marland Works railway station

Marland Works

Trackbed of the old line.
Location
Place Peters Marland Ball clay works
Area Torridge
Grid reference SS507118
Operations
Pre-grouping Torrington and Marland Railway(1881 -1925)
North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway (1925 to 1948)[1]
Post-grouping British Railways
Platforms One
History
1925 Opened
1965 Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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Marlands Works was a busy industrial site for just over a century,[2] firstly on the Torrington and Marland Railway,[3] 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 Light Railway[4] before finally becoming part of the Southern Region of British Railways in 1948.[5] The line closed to passenger traffic in 1965[6] as part of the Beeching [7] reforms but the line remained open for freight between Barnstaple railway station and Torrington until 1982.[8] Today it forms part of the popular Tarka trail, although an important site for industrial railway historians[9] too. Marland Works station was used by workmen only and was not in public passenger use.

References

  1. ↑ Private, not grouped in 1923
  2. ↑ History of Clay web-site Photographer’s research
  3. ↑ North Devon Clay Messenger,M: Truro, Twelveheads Press, 1982 ISBN 0-906294-06-1
  4. ↑ Collation of sources, Devon railways
  5. ↑ Branch Lines to Torrington Mitchell,V/Smith,K: Midhurst, Middleton Press,1994 ISBN 1-873793-37-5
  6. ↑ "Discovering Britain's lost railways" Atterbury,P: Basingstoke, AA Publishing ISBN 978-0-7495-6370-7
  7. ↑ Detailed closure schedules
  8. ↑ Freight details
  9. ↑ IR archives
Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Dunsbear  
Torrington and Marland Railway (1881-1925)
North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway (1925 to 1948)
British Railways		   Petrockstow

See also

Coordinates: 50°53′30″N 4°07′53″W / 50.8918°N 4.1315°W / 50.8918; -4.1315


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