{"id":204,"date":"2020-08-03T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/?p=204"},"modified":"2024-10-08T00:40:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T23:40:32","slug":"41-north-cornwall-refresher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/41-north-cornwall-refresher\/","title":{"rendered":"41 North Cornwall Refresher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When the utilicon <\/em>worked to Holsworthy in November, the opportunity was taken to stop at some places on the Bude Branch (covered in Item 31) and the scout resolved then to return to Halwill Junction in summer for a route refresher.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The station only went by the name Halwill Junction for a while. It began as Halwill and Beaworthy and ended as plain Halwill, although the Railway Clearing House Index to Stations had it as Halwill for<\/em> Beaworthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, the settlement that grew around the railway was called Halwill Junction and today its name acts as a memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that remains of the station is the end of the light railway’s bay platform, where passengers joined the train for stations to Torrington. It lies at the start of a Devon Wildlife Trust nature reserve, where an information board remarks that “man borrowed the land from nature.” This woeful simplification does not mean to say that the world is better without the intrusion of the railways, for it can hardly be true that making a nature reserve from a few acres of the highly engineered guided transport system is any compensation for the widespread horror that has been let loose in its place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n