Alphington Halt railway station

Alphington Halt
Location
Place Alphington
Area Exeter
Operations
Line Teign Valley Line
Original company Great Western Railway
Post-grouping Great Western Railway
Platforms 1
History
2 April 1928 Station opens
9 June 1958 Station closes
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Alphington Halt railway station was a small station serving the village of Alphington (now a suburb of Exeter) located on the Teign Valley Line, which opened in 1882 and closed in 1961. This diverged from the South Devon Main Line at Exeter and joined the Netwon Abbot to Moretonhampstead line at Heathfield .

History

Alphington Halt had a 100ft long wooden platform with a flat roofed corrugated shelter located on the eastern side of the single track line with no sidings or passing loop.

Opened by the Great Western Railway in 1928, the station then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The station was then closed in June 1958 by the British Transport Commission.[1]

The site today

All that remains in the area of the halt are the stone foundations of the bridge that once carried the line over Church Road, and the railway embankment which can be followed as far as the end of Ide Lane, where the remains of the over bridge can still be seen. The line was destroyed beyond this by the building of the A30 dual carriageway. The trackbed re-emerges west of the site of Ide station a little further down the line.

The site has been developed as residential property, modishly called "the halt at alphington".

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Exeter St Thomas   Great Western Railway
Teign Valley Line		   Ide Halt

Notes

  1. ↑ Disused Stations - Alphington Halt Retrieved : 21 December 2016

References

  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  • Station on navigable O.S. map
  • "Disused Stations". Subterranea Britannica.

Coordinates: 50°42′13″N 3°32′16″W / 50.70373°N 3.53790°W / 50.70373; -3.53790


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