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[[Image:L&Bbarnstaple.jpg|thumb|250px|right|An early view of ''Barnstaple Town station'']] |
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[[Image:barnstapletowncanopy.jpg|thumb|250px|The remaining platform in 2006]] |
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[[Image:L&bCrest.gif|left|L&B Crest]]'''Barnstaple Town''' was an intermediate station on the [[London and South Western Railway|L&SWR]] line to [[Ilfracombe]], and between [[1898]] and [[1935]], also the South-western Terminus of the [[Lynton and Barnstaple Railway]], a famously scenic [[narrow gauge]] line that ran through [[Exmoor]] from [[Barnstaple]] to [[Lynton]] and [[Lynmouth]] in North [[Devon]], a distance by rail of almost 20 miles. |
[[Image:L&bCrest.gif|left|L&B Crest]]'''Barnstaple Town''' was an intermediate station on the [[London and South Western Railway|L&SWR]] line to [[Ilfracombe]], and between [[1898]] and [[1935]], also the South-western Terminus of the [[Lynton and Barnstaple Railway]], a famously scenic [[narrow gauge]] line that ran through [[Exmoor]] from [[Barnstaple]] to [[Lynton]] and [[Lynmouth]] in North [[Devon]], a distance by rail of almost 20 miles. |
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Revision as of 17:14, 1 July 2006
Barnstaple Town was an intermediate station on the L&SWR line to Ilfracombe, and between 1898 and 1935, also the South-western Terminus of the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, a famously scenic narrow gauge line that ran through Exmoor from Barnstaple to Lynton and Lynmouth in North Devon, a distance by rail of almost 20 miles.
The mainline closed, along with the station, in 1970.
A volunteer group, the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Co., are rebuilding the railway, from their main operating centre at Woody Bay, where passenger services restarted in 2004.