Marland Works railway station

Marlands Works was a busy industrial site for just over a century,History of Clay web-site Photographer’s research firstly on the Torrington and Marland Railway,North Devon Clay Messenger, M: Truro, Twelveheads Press, 1982 built to carry bricks and clay on a gauge of , 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.Branch Lines to Torrington Mitchell, V/Smith, K: Midhurst, Middleton Press, 1994 The line closed to passenger traffic in 1965"Discovering Britain's lost railways" Atterbury, P: Basingstoke, AA Publishing as part of the BeechingDetailed closure schedules 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 historiansIR archives too. Marland Works station was used by workmen only and was not in public passenger use.

See also

List of closed railway stations in Britain

References

External links The Colonel Stephens Society