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Encyclopedia > Killington Lane railway station

Killington Lane is a temporary terminus about one mile South West of Woody Bay on the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway (L&B), the narrow gauge line that originally ran for 19 miles through Exmoor from Barnstaple to Lynton and Lynmouth in North Devon. Image File history File links L&bCrest. ... Woody Bay railway station is a station on the former Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, a famously scenic narrow gauge line that ran through Exmoor from Barnstaple to Lynton and Lynmouth in North Devon. ... The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway was a narrow-gauge railway running through the rugged and picturesque countryside of Exmoor in North Devon, England. ... Narrow-gauge railways are railroads (railways) with track spaced at less than the standard gauge of 4 ft 8 in (1. ... Dunster Yarn Market (a covered market for the sale of local cloth, built in 1609) and Dunster Castle, Exmoor Exmoor National Park is a national park situated on the Bristol Channel coast of Devon and Somerset in South West England. ... Arms of Barnstaple Town Council Barnstaple Clock Tower, erected in 1862 as a memorial to Prince Albert (the husband of Queen Victoria) A view of Barnstaple Long Bridge Location within the British Isles Barnstaple is a town in the county of Devon in the South West of England. ... Location within the British Isles Lynton is a small town in Devon, England. ... Lynmouth is a village in Devon, England. ... Devon is a large county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ...


The L&B originally opened in 1898, and closed in 1935. Despite the length of time since closure, and after much effort from a group of volunteers and enthusiasts, the restored Woody Bay station reopened to passengers in the Summer of 2004.


Killington Lane opened to passenger services on 27 May 2006, as the rebuilding continues southwards towards the former Halt at Parracombe. Parracombe railway station was a halt on the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, a famously scenic narrow gauge line that ran through Exmoor from Barnstaple to Lynton and Lynmouth in North Devon. ...


The platform shelter at Killington Lane, styled on those used elsewhere on the original line (such as at Snapper} is intended to be transportable, so the station can be moved to each new railhead as the reconstruction continues. Snapper Halt railway station was a station on the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, a famously scenic narrow gauge line that ran through Exmoor from Barnstaple to Lynton and Lynmouth in North Devon. ...


External link

  • Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Project


 

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