{"id":10673,"date":"2025-06-11T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/?p=10673"},"modified":"2025-06-18T22:32:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:32:28","slug":"116-copplestone-to-barnstaple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/116-copplestone-to-barnstaple\/","title":{"rendered":"116 Copplestone to Barnstaple, via South Molton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As surface dressing was planned for the road to Exeter, the scout drove the utilicon to Crediton and caught the train to Copplestone.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another cyclist was caught the train, intending to cycle from Barnstaple to Newton St. Cyres, via Sheepwash and Okehampton. As he was from Yorkshire, the scout advised that if he felt weary at Okehampton, he could return by train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two “Station Friends” were tending the garden and the scout remarked: “Looking lovely, ladies.” They told the scout that there were now fewer volunteers and that the competition for the best kept North Devon line garden was no longer held; Copplestone routinely won it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The scout stopped at Lapford to take some photos in better light than he’d had the previous year. Then he pulled off the turnpike to see his favourite bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Overlay” Miniature Warning Stop Lights, independent of the signalling system, cost between \u00a3120,000 and \u00a3150,000 per crossing, the scout read in Rail Engineer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n