Petrockstow railway station

Infobox UK disused station
name = Petrockstow


caption = Site of old station, now start of Tarka Trail [The spelling now follows that of the village ("Devon County Council")- see also Langston.]
gridref = SS516106
manager = Torrington and Marland Railway(1881 -1925)
North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway (1925 to 1948) [Private, not grouped in 1923]
owner = Southern Region of British Railways (1948 to 1966)
locale = One mile outside Petrockstowe village
borough = West Devon
platforms = Two
years = 5 February 1881
events = Opened
years1 = 1 March 1965 | events1 = Closed

Petrockstow railway station [ [http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/mickssrsource/srmiddgazet/csr.html As spelt by Col Stevens original timetable] ] was a station serving the village of Petrockstowe in West Devon, which is about one mile away. The station was, throughout its passenger-carrying life from 1925 to 1965, spelt without the final "e" of the village name.

in 1948 [ Branch Lines to Torrington Mitchell,V/Smith,K: Midhurst, Middleton Press,1994 ISBN 1873793375] .

A victim of Beeching, the line closed to passengers in 1965 but it remained open for freight trains from the Meeth quarries which passed into the rail network through Barnstaple and Torrington until 1982 [ [http://disused-rlys.fotopic.net/c1147820.html Freight details] ] . Occasionally, railway memorabilia connected with the station surfaces [ [http://www.paddingtonticketauctions.co.uk/t33/cat.html See Lot 102] ] .

See also

*List of closed railway stations in Britain
* [http://www.colonelstephenssociety.org.uk/webpages/History.htm The Colonel Stephens Society]

References