| Marland Works | |
|---|---|
 Trackbed of the old line. | |
| General information | |
| Location | Peters Marland Ball clay works, Torridge England |
| Grid reference | SS507118 |
| Platforms | One |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Pre-grouping | Torrington and Marland Railway(1881 -1925) North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway (1925 to 1948) |
| Key dates | |
| ? | Opened |
| ? | Closed |
Marlands Works was a busy industrial site for just over a century, firstly on the Torrington and Marland Railway, 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 before finally becoming part of the Southern Region of British Railways in 1948. The line closed to passenger traffic in 1965 as part of the Beeching reforms but the line remained open for freight between Barnstaple railway station and Torrington until 1982. Today it forms part of the popular Tarka trail, although an important site for industrial railway historians too. Marland Works station was used by workmen only and was not in public passenger use.
See also
References
- Private, not grouped in 1923
- History of Clay web-site Photographer’s research
- North Devon Clay Messenger,M: Truro, Twelveheads Press, 1982 ISBN 0-906294-06-1
- "Collation of sources, Devon railways". Archived from the original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2007.
- 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
- Detailed closure schedules
- Freight details
- IR archives Archived 2006-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
External links
| Ex stations on the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway | |
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50°53′30″N 4°07′53″W / 50.8918°N 4.1315°W / 50.8918; -4.1315
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