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 Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1966)
Platforms One
History
27 July 1925 Opened
27 January 1981 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)
Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1966)		   Petrockstow

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