Brimley Halt railway station

Brimley Halt
Brimley Halt with a special train in 1970
Location
Place	Brimley
Area	Teignbridge
Grid reference	SX8121177562
Operations
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	1
History
21 May 1928[1]	Opened
2 March 1959	Closed to passengers [1]
5 July 1970	final closure
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Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway
Legend Moretonhampstead A382 road Lustleigh Hawkmoor Halt later renamed Pullabrook Bovey Brimley Halt Teign Valley Line Heathfield (Devon) A38 road Teigngrace Halt Exeter Road GWML to London Newton Abbot GWML to Penzance

Brimley Halt was a railway station open in 1928 by the Great Western Railway (GWR) to serve the village of Brimley that lies between Bovey Tracey and Ilsington in South Devon, England. It had a single platform and was located on a curved section of track without a passing loop or sidings. A special train to Bovey Tracey visited Brimley Halt on 5 July 1970,^[2] its last known use by a passenger train. The track had been lifted by 8 September 1975.^[3]

Gulf Oil Depot near Brimley Halt.

The site of the station was destroyed by the construction of a new A382 road along the course of the trackbed.^[4]

References

Notes

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• Kingdom, Anthony. R.; Lang, Mike (2004). The Newton Abbot to Moretonhampstead Railway. Liverton, Newton Abbot: Forest Publishing. ISBN 1-873029-09-8.

Coordinates: 50°35′08″N 3°40′45″W / 50.5856°N 3.6793°W / 50.5856; -3.6793