Ashburton Railway Station
| Ashburton Railway Station | |
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 Ashburton terminus with its typical Brunel roof , photo 1969
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| opening | May 1, 1872 |
| Conveyance | First time: September 7, 1962
Final (after reopening as a museum railway ): 1971 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Ashburton |
| county | Devon |
| Part of the country | England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 30 ′ 51 ″ N , 3 ° 45 ′ 16 ″ W |
| List of train stations in the United Kingdom | |
The Ashburton railway station is a former railway station in the town of Ashburton in Devon , UK . It was the terminus of the Totnes branch line .
history
The station, like the entire route, was opened on May 1, 1872 by the Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway . In 1897, the route was taken over by the Great Western Railway , which was nationalized on January 1, 1948 to British Railways . The station was closed to passenger traffic in November 1958; Freight traffic ended on September 7, 1962.
Ashburton Station was then briefly returned to service by the Dart Valley Railway , a museum railway , on April 5, 1969, but finally closed in 1971 when the line between Ashburton and Buckfastleigh was needed for the expansion of the A38 road. Today the South Devon Railway , a successor company of the Dart Valley Railway, still operates the hull between Totnes and Buckfastleigh.
The train station today
Today the former station building is used by a car repair shop and is no longer recognizable as a station after renovations. The former goods shed ( location ) is a Grade II building under monument protection.
literature
- Paul Karau: Great Western Branch Line Terms . Volume 1. Oxford Publishing Company Railprint, Oxford 1977, ISBN 0-86093-369-5
Web links
- Ashburton Station (English)