Meeth Halt railway station

Meeth Halt
Meeth Halt
	Site of old station, now part of a long-distance footpath
General information
Location	Meeth, West Devon; England
Grid reference	SS546079
Platforms	One
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway
Post-grouping	North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway; Southern Region of British Railways;
Key dates
27 July 1925	Opened
1 March 1965	Closed

Opened in 1925, Meeth Halt was a small railway station on the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway, a private line until it became part of the Southern Region of British Railways in 1948.^[1] The line was built in part over a narrow gauge line that was used from 1881 to take ball clay from claypits at Marland and Meeth to Torrington, which was until 1925 the terminus of a branch from Barnstaple.

The line was closed to passenger traffic in 1965^[2] as part of the Beeching proposals, but remained open for freight from the Meeth clay workings north of Meeth Halt through Torrington to Barnstaple until 1982.^[3] The station consisted of a simple short concrete platform and a stone shelter and remains as a recognisable landmark on the Tarka Trail, a very popular destination for long-distance walkers and cyclists.^[4] As a result it is in the process of a major renovation.^[5]

References

^ Branch Lines to Torrington Mitchell, V & Smith, K: Midhurst, Middleton Press, 1994 ISBN 1-873793-37-5
^ Discovering Britain's lost railways Atterbury, P: Basingstoke, AA Publishing ISBN 978-0-7495-6370-7
^ Freight details^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Local authority details
^ Planning application^{[permanent dead link]}

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Petrockstow		North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway (1925 to 1948) Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1965)		Hatherleigh

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