Hole railway station

Hole Railway Station[1] was a small halt on the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway in the U.K. between Torrington and Halwill Junction, serving villages such as Black Torrington, Highampton and Sheepwash. The line, which opened in 1925, was a private line until it became part of the Southern Region of British Railways [2] in 1948. The line closed in 1965[3] as part of the Beeching proposals, freight services having been withdrawn earlier on this section of the line.

Hole
Track approaching former station
LocationJust south west of the village of Highampton, Torridge
England
Grid referenceSS469035
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyNorth Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway
Post-grouping
Key dates
27 July 1925Opened
1 March 1965Closed
Remains of the station in 1995

References
  1. Map of Station’s position Archived 20 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. V. Mitchell and K. Smith. Branch Lines to Torrington (1994 ed.). Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1-873793-37-5.
  3. Atterbury, P. Discovering Britain's lost railways. Basingstoke: AA Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7495-6370-7.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Hatherleigh   North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway (1925 to 1948)
Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1965)		   Halwill

See also


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