{"id":6323,"date":"1993-08-25T17:53:00","date_gmt":"1993-08-25T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:32:31","slug":"94-feed-store-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/94-feed-store-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Feed Store Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The scout would have seen the feed store many times from the train but it was not until he became aware that the site was to be sold that he went to have a closer look. It was then that he thought the old store could well become the Building Department workshop at Christow.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ivybridge Goods Yard on 31st August, 1978. The yard had ceased to carry ordinary goods traffic in 1965 but a shed had been constructed for the loading of china clay from Lee Moor.
The feed store, seen at right, and the cattle pen on the edge of the picture, were served by the line which passed through the goods shed. The passenger station, closed in 1959, was a quarter-mile Up the line (to the left).
The feed store was used by E.C.C.\/E.C.L.P. in connection with the loading facility.
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After years of dormancy, fate would have it that when contact was made with the B.R. Property Board on 13th January, 1993, the order had just been given to a local builder to demolish the shed and use some of the material to patch up the goods shed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, the officers responsible were amenable to the old store being sold and a day later the Works Surveyor, Mr. Sutton, instructed the builder to take his own materials; he had been about to go to the station when the order was received. On 22nd, Mr. Sutton advised that the main shed had been secured using secondhand materials costing \u00a350.<\/p>\n\n\n

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On 5th March, Mr. Wilmoss, the Area Surveyor, agreed to the sale and raised a charge of \u00a350 plus V.A.T.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A building commonly found at country stations was the feed store, from which proprietary animal feeds and supplements would be dispensed to local farmers. Usually, a small store like this one would have been managed by the railway on an agency basis. Stock would be unloaded and sales entered up by railway staff, transactions being periodically checked by the firm\u2019s representative. At many stations the railway would also be the carter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There were animal food stores from which local agents sold to farmers. The food arrived in bulk and was delivered by railway lorry or the agents used their own transport. Some farmers collected their own feedstuffs.” Cliff Carr, L.M.S. Station Master, from <\/em>Life on the Old Railways by Tom Quinn.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beauty of the railway\u2019s method was that it took these commodities near enough to the point of demand that they could be handled by light road transport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This building was put up at Ivybridge by the G.W.R. around 1930. A page from the station\u2019s ticket issue book dated 1927 was found stuffed behind the lining.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The building stood on brick columns so that its floor was at platform level; it is thought that it formerly rested on a timber framework. A canopy projected from the platform side. It was clad with 18-gauge corrugated iron and had decorative bargeboards and finials. Every aperture was sealed up to keep out vermin; even the hungriest rat would tire of chewing through a three-inch floorboard.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Scraps from a Booking Clerk’s Train Book were found behind the lining. The “IVYBRIDGE ” stamp can just be made out at top right. +<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n