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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 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.
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]
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 .
Meldon railway station was a stone built railway station with goods sidings in Northumberland on the Wansbeck Railway between Morpeth and Reedsmouth to the south of ...
Okehampton railway station is a terminus railway station on the Dartmoor line serving the town of Okehampton in Devon, England. The station closed to regular traffic in 1972, but heritage and occasional mainline services ran from 1997 to 2019.
The track is still extant to the former Meldon Quarry railway station to the west, where the track breaks. Tavistock lacks a rail connection, and the final section of the original main line, from Bere Alston , continues to Plymouth as part of the Tamar Valley Line .
Meldon Quarry – Staff Halt opened c.1925, closed 6 May 1968. New station opened in 2000; Bridestowe – opened 12 October 1874, closed 6 May 1968; Lydford – LSWR services from 12 October 1874, closed 6 May 1968 Mary Tavy and Blackdown Halt – LSWR services from 17 May 1876 to 31 May 1890; Tavistock GWR – LSWR services from 17 May 1876 to ...