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Meldon quarry site in 2002 with the viaduct in the background. Meldon Quarry is a granite quarry in Devon, England. It is at the northern edge of Dartmoor, about 2 miles SW of Okehampton. It was developed from 1897 to supply track ballast and other stone products for the London and South Western Railway (LSWR). It was privatised in 1994.
Train at Meldon Viaduct Station. A new station at Meldon Quarry was opened during 2000 by Dartmoor Railway to act as the terminus of a passenger service from Okehampton. It has a single platform adjacent to the former up line but situated slightly nearer to Okehampton than the former Staff Halt.
Meldon is a hamlet in West Devon, on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England. [1] It is 4 km south-west of Okehampton . Its main features are the Meldon Quarry and Meldon Reservoir and the nearby Meldon Viaduct .
The quarry at Meldon was mothballed in 2011, bringing an end to stone freight trains using the line. Heritage train services ceased in December 2019 and, in February 2020, the railway entered administration. [13] Rolling stock based at Okehampton station was moved to Meldon Quarry, with most offered for resale. [14]
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The Avocet Line was saved from closure, but Okehampton lost its passenger services from 1972. The line survived, however, for the purposes of freight thanks to the activities of the British Rail ballast quarry at Meldon, three miles from Okehampton, [1] which had an output of 300,000 tons per year. [3] The line to the quarry closed in 2011. [1]