{"id":7921,"date":"2024-07-26T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/?p=7921"},"modified":"2024-08-27T15:37:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T14:37:54","slug":"xxx-b-w-ho-a-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/xxx-b-w-ho-a-r\/","title":{"rendered":"103 B.,W.H! & A.R."},"content":{"rendered":"
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It had been ten years since the scout had followed this long lost line so he returned for a refresher. The railway reached a spectacular coastline, a draw in itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was only one other cyclist on the platform at St. David’s but when the Barnstaple train arrived from Central, a family of four with bicycles appeared. The scout was pleased to find that there was additional accommodation on the Class 158 D.M.U., sufficient for the six bicycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the junction, the scout rode up Sticklepath Hill, bypassed in 2007 by an entirely new road system built around the new downstream Taw Bridge. Sticklepath Hill was itself a bypass of what became Old Stickepath Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scout stopped to photograph the old and the new from High Wall, before taking the old turnpike to Bideford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The A3125, at left, blocks the course of the line to Bideford, although the embankment was supposed to have been made so as to allow an underbridge. At far right, a bus can be seen about to take the short cut beneath the A361 to the station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n