Marland Works railway station
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Marland Works | |||||
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 Trackbed of the old line. | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Peters Marland Ball clay works, Torridge England | ||||
| Grid reference | SS507118 | ||||
| Platforms | One | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Status | Disused | ||||
| History | |||||
| Pre-grouping | Torrington and Marland Railway(1881 -1925) North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway (1925 to 1948)[1] | ||||
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| ? | Opened | ||||
| ? | Closed | ||||
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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 gauge of 3 ft (914 mm), 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.
