Teigngrace Halt railway station
| Teigngrace Halt | |
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Teigngrace Halt with a special train in 1970 | |
| Location | |
| Place | Teigngrace |
| Area | Teignbridge |
| Grid reference | SX8493674220 |
| Operations | |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Platforms | 1 |
| History | |
| December 1876[1] | Opened as Teigngrace |
| 1 January 1919 | Closed |
| 1 May 1919 | Reopened |
| 8 May 1939 | Renamed Teigngrace Halt |
| 2 March 1959 | Closed to passengers[1] |
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Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway | |
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Legend
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Teigngrace Halt was a railway station open as Teigngrace by the in 1928 by the Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway in 1876 to serve the village of Brimley that lies between Bovey Tracey and Ilsington in South Devon, England.
History
The station was renamed Teigngrace Halt by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1939. It had a single platform. A special train to Bovey Tracey visited Brimley Halt on 5 July 1970, its last known use by a passenger train. It had a single platform, with a ticket office and waiting room, with sidings and a passing loop - now lifted. The platform was still in situ, as was the ruined station building in 1975. The old Stover Canal runs parallel to the line at this point and locks were located nearby.
Freight traffic
The nearby sidings and loading dock lie on the other side of the level crossing and were used for many years for ball clay traffic, however when this ceased and in 2009 the line was mothballed until December 2011 when it was announced that the section of the line to Heathfield would re-opened to facilitate the transport of timber from Heathfield to Chirk in North Wales by Colas Rail.[2][3] In the same month a timber siding was opened at Teigngrace, just before the level crossing at Exeter Road, to allow the timber to be loaded onto the freight trains. Teigngrace lacks a passing loop and trains and with empty wagons continue up the line to Heathfield to permit locomotives to run around the waggins using the loop in the disused station. The empty freight train then drives back to the timber sidings at Teigngrace to be loaded. Loading of the timber is carried out by the lorries that bring the timber to the sidings.[4]
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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| Newton Abbot | Newton Abbot to Moretonhampstead Great Western Railway |
Heathfield | ||
References
- Notes
- 1 2 Butt, Page 227
- ↑ Rail, Issue 706, 3 Oct – 16 Oct 2012. Page 62
- ↑ "Disused Devon freight line to transport timber to Wales". BBC News – Devon. 7 December 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-07.
- ↑ "Heathfield Branch Developments". RM Web. 6 December 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-07.
- Sources
- Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
Coordinates: 50°33′23″N 3°37′33″W / 50.5563°N 3.6257°W