Marland Works
Trackbed of the old line.
General information
LocationPeters Marland Ball clay works, Torridge
England
Grid referenceSS507118
PlatformsOne
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-groupingTorrington and Marland Railway(1881 -1925)
North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway (1925 to 1948)[1]
Key dates
?Opened
?Closed

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.

See also

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". Archived from the original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2007.
  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 Archived 2006-10-14 at the Wayback Machine

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


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