Marland Works railway station

Marland Works
Marland Works
General information
Location	Torridge
Owned by	British Railways
Managed by	Torrington and Marland Railway(1881 -1925); North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway (1925 to 1948)
Platforms	One
Key dates
1925	Opened
1965	Closed

Marlands Works was a busy industrial site for just over a century,^[2] firstly on the Torrington and Marland Railway,^[3] built to carry bricks and clay on a three-feet gauge, which in turn was subsumed in 1925 by the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway^[4] before finally becoming part of the Southern Region of British Railways in 1948.^[5] The line closed to passenger traffic in 1965^[6] as part of the Beeching ^[7] reforms but the line remained open for freight between Barnstaple railway station and Torrington until 1982.^[8] Today it forms part of the popular Tarka trail, although an important site for industrial railway historians^[9] too. Marland Works station was used by workmen only and was not in public passenger use.

References

^ Private, not grouped in 1923
^ History of Clay web-site Photographer’s research
^ North Devon Clay Messenger,M: Truro, Twelveheads Press, 1982 ISBN 0-906294-06-1
^ Collation of sources, Devon railways
^ Branch Lines to Torrington Mitchell,V/Smith,K: Midhurst, Middleton Press,1994 ISBN 1-873793-37-5
^ "Discovering Britain's lost railways" Atterbury,P: Basingstoke, AA Publishing ISBN 978-0-7495-6370-7
^ Detailed closure schedules
^ Freight details^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ IR archives Archived 2006-10-14 at the Wayback Machine

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Dunsbear		Torrington and Marland Railway (1881-1925) North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway (1925 to 1948) British Railways		Petrockstow

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