Snapper Halt railway station

Infobox UK disused station| name = Snapper Halt| locale = Exmoor| borough = North Devon

| caption = | line = Lynton & Barnstaple| manager = LSWR| owner = Southern| platforms = 1| gridref = SS59383484| years = June 1904| events = Opened| years1 = 29 September 1935| events1 = Closed|

Snapper Halt was a station on the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, a famously scenic narrow gauge line that ran through Exmoor from Barnstaple to Lynton and Lynmouth in North Devon. The station served a rural area near the hamlet of Snapper.

The hamlet drives its name from "La Snappe" - first recorded in 1256 - meaning "boggy land". [The placenames of Devon, by Gover, Mawer and Stenton, 1932, Cambridge University Press)] Some believe that there was once an inn named "The Snapper" or similar, in the vicinity, although further details have not been uncovered.

The halt opened in June 1904, and closed with the line on 29 September 1935. From 1923 until closure, the line was operated by the Southern Railway.

After closure, one of the coaches - 6991 - was placed on a short length of track at Snapper halt, and used as a summer house. It was truncated in the 1960s and was eventually burned.

Another coach - 6993 - was left further along the track. In 1959 this was removed by the newly resurrected Festiniog Railway and has now run more miles as Buffet Car 14 in Wales than it ever did in Devon.

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