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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.
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]
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, untouched for more than three decades, no longer had working roads that would carry trucks down into the quarry pit, and 30-year-old trees had grown up throughout the area. 200 ...
Meldon Viaduct is a disused railway viaduct crossing the West Okement River at Meldon, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south-west of Okehampton, on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, South West England. This truss bridge was constructed from wrought iron, instead of stone or brick arches. It opened in 1874 for a single track; in 1879 its width was doubled for a ...
On 20 January 1879 the LSWR opened a branch line to Holsworthy diverging from the Lydford line at Meldon Junction. At that time Bude was a small harbour town, and although it was proposed to extend the branch to the town, the LSWR did not consider it important enough to justify the cost. [ 1 ]
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 ...