Marland Works railway station

Marland Works
Trackbed of the old line.
Location
Place	Peters Marland Ball clay works
Area	Torridge
Grid reference	SS507118
Operations
Pre-grouping	Torrington and Marland Railway(1881 -1925) North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway (1925 to 1948)[1]
Post-grouping	British Railways
Platforms	One
History
1925	Opened
1965	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 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.

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
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

See also

• List of closed railway stations in Britain

External links

• The Colonel Stephens Society

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