Marland Works railway station

Marland Works
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,^[2] firstly on the Torrington and Marland Railway,^[3] 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^[4] before finally becoming part of the Southern Region of British Railways in 1948.^[5] The line closed to passenger traffic in 1965^[6] as part of the Beeching^[7] reforms but the line remained open for freight between Barnstaple railway station and Torrington until 1982.^[8] Today it forms part of the popular Tarka trail, although an important site for industrial railway historians^[9] too. Marland Works station was used by workmen only and was not in public passenger use.

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^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Freight details^{[permanent dead link]}
^ IR archives Archived 2006-10-14 at the Wayback Machine

External links[]

The Colonel Stephens Society

Coordinates: 50°53′30″N 4°07′53″W / 50.8918°N 4.1315°W / 50.8918; -4.1315

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[1] Private, not grouped in 1923

[2] History of Clay web-site Photographer’s research

[3] North Devon Clay Messenger,M: Truro, Twelveheads Press, 1982 ISBN 0-906294-06-1

[4] "Collation of sources, Devon railways". Archived from the original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2007.

[5] Branch Lines to Torrington Mitchell,V/Smith,K: Midhurst, Middleton Press,1994 ISBN 1-873793-37-5

[6] "Discovering Britain's lost railways" Atterbury,P: Basingstoke, AA Publishing ISBN 978-0-7495-6370-7

[7] Detailed closure schedules^{[permanent dead link]}

[8] Freight details^{[permanent dead link]}

[9] IR archives Archived 2006-10-14 at the Wayback Machine

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Marland Works railway station

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