{"id":3556,"date":"2019-11-11T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2024-10-08T00:37:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T23:37:39","slug":"31-okehampton-to-holsworthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/31-okehampton-to-holsworthy\/","title":{"rendered":"31 Okehampton to Holsworthy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the need to collect two wheelbarrows from Mole Valley at Holsworthy, an excuse arose for a rare long distance diagram for the railway’s utilicon. It must have been getting on for 20 years since the scout last went that way on the X9 to Bude, which destination for some reason was then available on the Dartmoor Sunday Rover <\/em>ticket.

<\/strong>On arrival at Mole Valley’s depot on Underlane, just beneath the station site, the scout marched into the yard office and demanded a discount for two barrows he knew they’d had in stock for a long time. For his cheek, he won a member’s discount, all of 4%.

<\/strong>The forecast was for grey all day, but the sun came out for his jaunt over Derriton Viaduct and down the line as far as the first overbridge, about three parts of a mile.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Derriton Viaduct, looking Up line towards Holsworthy.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Looking towards Bude. +<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Then he wandered around town, familiarizing himself with the place again and noting what had changed, before going along Station Road to see the transformation of the station since he last took photos there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n