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Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway

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/ /1865	Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway London and South Western Railway Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway absorbed by the London and South Western Railway.
/ /1874	Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway Opened from Barnstaple Junction to Ilfracombe. Stations opened at Barnstaple Quay, Wrafton, Braunton, Mortehoe, Ilfracombe.
/ /1886	Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway Barnstaple Quay renamed Barnstaple Town [1st].
/ /1886	Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway Rolles Quay branch opened by the London and South Western Railway.
/ /1898	Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway Barnstaple Town [1st] closed, replaced by Barnstaple Town [2nd]. Relocated for the opening of the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway.
/ /1898	Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Line opened from Barnstaple Town [2nd] (relocated on the Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway for the opening) to Lynton and Lynmouth.
/ /1950	Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway Mortehoe renamed Mortehoe and Woolacoombe.
/ /1964	Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway Rolles Quay branch closed.
/ /1970	Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway Closed to passengers and completely. Ilfracombe, Mortehoe and Woolacoombe, Braunton, Wrafton, Barnstaple Town [2nd] closed.

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Barnstaple

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North Devon Railway and Dock

This sign at Barnstaple gives you up-to-date local transport information, but also reminds you of Southern Railway colours. A nice mix. We saw well ...
Ken Strachan 05/04/2023

Here is the Exeter end of that 158 at Barnstaple (see image 85516). This would be a dull picture in daylight - sometimes there is an upside to my ...
Ken Strachan 05/04/2023

The 20.41 to Exeter St.Davids awaits its departure time at Barnstaple. ...
Ken Strachan 05/04/2023

Recently arrived train at Barnstaple in the summer of 2002. ...
Ian Dinmore 05/06/2002

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Barnstaple Town [1st]

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Barnstaple Town [2nd]

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Lynton and Barnstaple Railway

View from an Ilfracombe-bound train leaving the River Taw bridge in Barnstaple in 1964 and running towards Barnstaple Town station. The locomotive was ...
Brian Haslehust /07/1964

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Wrafton

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Braunton

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The old goods shed at Braunton see image 56400 is now the Museum of British Surfing. I assume that is an outdoor activity, as opposed to Internet ...
Ken Strachan 14/04/2017

Another view of the now-incongruous signal at Braunton see image 56400. The railway path to Barnstaple resumes to the right of the street sign in ...
Ken Strachan 28/08/2016

One of only two 'Signal Court's in the UK. This signal, which presumably used to have a longer ladder, once stood at the Southern limit of Braunton ...
Ken Strachan 28/08/2016

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Mortehoe and Woolacombe

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It is entertaining to compare the buildings. The building and most of the awning on the left are careful copies of the original railway building on ...
Ken Strachan //2007

Unfortunately Mortehoe and Woolacombe station, which was reused first as a restaurant, then as an adventure playground for children, does not have ...
Ken Strachan //2007

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Ilfracombe

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GWR Ilfracombe Poster from 1882. ...
Ian Dinmore //2016

The magnificient South approach to Ilfracombe (1 in 36 down; the factory slightly left of centre is built on the former station site). ...
Ken Strachan //2007

Preservation attempts having failed, Ilfracombe station is bulldozed into rubble in September 1976. Hopefully, the station nameplate (cast concrete ...
Mark Dufton /09/1976

Looking as if it has received a direct hit from a missile, the terminus at Ilfracombe undergoing demolition on 8th September 1976. We might imagine a ...
Mark Dufton 08/09/1976

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Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway

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Barnstaple

Barnstaple Town [1st]

Barnstaple Town [2nd]

Wrafton

Braunton

Mortehoe and Woolacombe

Ilfracombe

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