Jonathan Wright · @Jon6705
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Historic Lynton & Barnstaple Railway buys former station site

devonlive.com/news/devon-news/

Great new for this wonderful little railway.

Nothing to do with Beeching for a change.

&BarnstapleRailway

#closedrailways #northdevon #devon #lynton #railways

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Jonathan Wright · @Jon6705
402 followers · 5226 posts · Server mastodon.world
Jonathan Wright · @Jon6705
402 followers · 5226 posts · Server mastodon.world
Jonathan Wright · @Jon6705
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@lindasgoluppiart

Going off at a tangent ...

How many towns and villages have a 'Station Road' but no station these days?!

#closedrailways #closedstations

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Jonathan Wright · @Jon6705
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Exciting plans to relink Bideford Tarka Line railway with rest of Devon

devonlive.com/news/devon-news/

Wonderful if this goes ahead. So many areas of Devon & Cornwall completely cut off since their railways closed in the 1960s.

#bideford #devon #uk #railways #closedrailways #beeching #tarkaline #ukrail

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Jonathan Wright · @Jon6705
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Devon and Cornwall's lost and abandoned railways

devonlive.com/news/history/dev

So many railways and stations closed nationally, cutting off their respective communities. A very sad period.

If left, you can bet you bottom Dollar that would have closed them.

A few have been reopened or are footpaths or routes, but it's not the same.

Given problems with so many cars on the roads today, a good number should never have been closed.

#devon #cornwall #ukrail #closedrailways #beeching #thatcher #cycle

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