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The station was last open to passenger services at the end of September 2019. Dartmoor Railway CIC went into administration in February 2020 and has now been wound up. The line was purchased by Network Rail from Aggregate Industries in June 2021 and regular services resumed in November 2021 between Exeter and Okehampton.
Dartmoor includes the largest area of granite in Britain, with about 625 km 2 (241 sq mi) at the surface, though most of it is under superficial peat deposits. The granite (or more specifically adamellite) was intruded at depth as a pluton into the surrounding sedimentary rocks during the Carboniferous period, probably about 309 million years ago. [2]
The Dartmoor line is a 15 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile (24.9 km) railway line in Devon, England. From Crediton , the line runs alongside the Tarka Line to the site of the former Coleford Junction where it diverges west to Okehampton .
Sylvia Sayer in May 1983. Sylvia Rosalind Pleadwell Sayer, Lady Sayer (6 March 1904 – 4 January 2000), was a passionate conservationist and environmental campaigner on behalf of Dartmoor, [1] an area of mostly granite moorland in Devon in the south-west of England.
Crockern Tor is a tor in Dartmoor National Park, Devon, England. Composed of two large outcrops of rock, it is 396 metres above sea level. The lower outcrop was the open-air meeting place of the Stannary Convocation of Devon from the early 14th century until the first half of the 18th century. On Parliament Rock, pictured here, the Lord Warden ...
Brat Tor on the western edge of Dartmoor. Widgery's Cross visible on the summit. Widgery Cross on Brat Tor, Bridestowe. Brat Tor, also known as Brai Tor and Widgery Tor, [1] is a dramatic granite tor on the western flank of Dartmoor, England. It is best known for Widgery Cross, the tallest Dartmoor cross, which stands on its summit.
Dewerstone is the site of an Iron Age Hill fort on a rocky promontory overlooking the River Plym on the South West edge of Dartmoor to the North of Plympton in Devon. The fort consists of ramparts to the Northern side of the promontory at approx 210 Metres above Sea Level. [1]
Wistman's Wood is one of Britain's last remaining ancient temperate rainforests and one of three remote high-altitude oakwoods on Dartmoor in Devon, England. The first written document to mention Wistman's Wood date to the 17th century, while more recent tree-ring studies show that individual trees could be many hundreds of years old.