{"id":9479,"date":"2025-03-16T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T10:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/?p=9479"},"modified":"2025-03-29T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T10:19:29","slug":"this-way-to-disused-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/this-way-to-disused-station\/","title":{"rendered":"This Way to Disused Station"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A collection of signs pointing to stations where there are no longer any trains.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of Devon’s cast iron direction posts were torn out in the late 1970s and replaced with wooden ones carrying aluminium fingers. Fortunately, Somerset and Cornwall county councils were not so philistine, resulting in iron or wooden fingers pointing to long forgotten places.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The former Trewerry & Trerice Halt lay on the Perranporth to Newquay line. The brown one above directs tourists to the Lappa Valley Railway, which occupies part of the route. This was taken in August, 2007.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Less than a quarter of a mile beyond the Devon-Somerset border on the Exe Valley turnpike, there is a sign pointing to Dulverton Station, closed in 1966.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Bury and Watchet are on a finger pointing towards the camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the eight places seen here, seven had, or have, stations. Six are closed, but there is still Exeter, 25 miles away, or Sampford Peverell (Tiverton Parkway), at 18 miles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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With its letters no longer picked out in black, this one points to Draycott, between Cheddar and Wells (Yatton and Witham).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Chilla Cross: Halwill Junction became a village but its station and single lines in four directions were all gone by 1966.
Halwill Town could have been another station name.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The scout had ridden past this post in 2023<\/a> but it was Tony Hill who spotted it. One of the fingers directs those looking for South Molton Road Station to the turnpike, via James’s Week Lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n