Lustleigh railway station

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Lustleigh
Lustleigh Station - 1912.jpg
Lustleigh station in 1912 with a train for Moretonhampstead
General information
Location Lustleigh, Teignbridge
England
Grid reference SX786814
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Key dates
4 July 1866Opened [1]
2 March 1959Closed to passengers [1]
1964Line closed to goods traffic
Moretonhampstead
and South Devon Railway
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Moretonhampstead
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Lustleigh
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Hawkmoor Halt / Pullabrook Halt
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Bovey
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Brimley Halt
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Heathfield
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Teigngrace Halt
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Exeter Road
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Newton Abbot
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Lustleigh station was on the Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway serving the village of Lustleigh, Devon, England.

Lustleigh was the penultimate station on this 12.3 mile (20 km) branchline off the South Devon Main Line. It had a single platform and one siding. [2] The platform survives and the station building has been greatly enlarged.

The Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway company was formed in 1861, and work on the line commenced in 1863. The line opened to the public in 1866 and converted from broad gauge to standard gauge in 1892.

The station was host to a GWR camp coach from 1934 to 1939. [3] [4] A camping coach was also positioned here by the Western Region from 1952 to 1958. [5]

The station closed to passengers after the last train on 28 February 1959, with goods trains continuing until 1964. The station was used on 28 February 1931 [6] for the film The Hound of the Baskervilles , its name being temporarily changed to Baskerville. [7] [8] [9]

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Pullabrook Halt   Newton Abbot to Moretonhampstead
Great Western Railway
  Moretonhampstead

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References

Notes
  1. 1 2 Butt, Page 151
  2. "Lustleigh station on OS 25 inch map Devon C.4 (Bovey Tracey; Lustleigh)". National Library of Scotland. 1905. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  3. McRae 1997, p. 31.
  4. Fenton 1999, p. 51.
  5. McRae 1998, p. 95.
  6. Railway Magazine No.407 May 1931 P.418
  7. Railway Magazine no. 407 May 1931 P.412
  8. Ewan 1964, p. 43.
  9. James, Paul (18 April 1995). "How the movies came to Lustleigh". Herald Express. p. 15.
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