Meeth Halt railway station

Former railway station in Devon, England

North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway
Southern Region of British Railways

Key dates27 July 1925Opened1 March 1965Closed

Opened in 1925, Meeth Halt was a small railway station on the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway, a private line until it became part of the Southern Region of British Railways in 1948.^[1] The line was built in part over a narrow gauge line that was used from 1881 to take ball clay from claypits at Marland and Meeth to Torrington, which was until 1925 the terminus of a branch from Barnstaple.

The line was closed to passenger traffic in 1965^[2] as part of the Beeching proposals, but remained open for freight from the Meeth clay workings north of Meeth Halt through Torrington to Barnstaple until 1982.^[3] The station consisted of a simple short concrete platform and a stone shelter and remains as a recognisable landmark on the Tarka Trail, a very popular destination for long-distance walkers and cyclists.^[4] As a result it is in the process of a major renovation.^[5]

References

^ 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
^ Freight details^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Local authority details
^ Planning application^{[permanent dead link]}