Marland Works railway station

Marland Works
Marland Works
	Trackbed of the old line.
General information
Location	Peters Marland Ball clay works, Torridge; England
Grid reference	SS507118
Platforms	One
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Torrington and Marland Railway(1881 -1925); North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway (1925 to 1948)
Key dates
?	Opened
?	Closed
Location
Location

Marlands Works was a busy industrial site for just over a century,^[2] firstly on the Torrington and Marland Railway,^[3] built to carry bricks and clay on a gauge of 3 ft (914 mm), which in turn was subsumed in 1925 by the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway^[4] before finally becoming part of the Southern Region of British Railways in 1948.^[5] The line closed to passenger traffic in 1965^[6] as part of the Beeching^[7] reforms but the line remained open for freight between Barnstaple railway station and Torrington until 1982.^[8] Today it forms part of the popular Tarka trail, although an important site for industrial railway historians^[9] too. Marland Works station was used by workmen only and was not in public passenger use.

References

^ Private, not grouped in 1923
^ History of Clay web-site Photographer’s research
^ North Devon Clay Messenger, M: Truro, Twelveheads Press, 1982 ISBN 0-906294-06-1
^ "Collation of sources, Devon railways". Archived from the original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 26 October 2007.
^ Branch Lines to Torrington Mitchell, V/Smith, K: Midhurst, Middleton Press, 1994 ISBN 1-873793-37-5
^ "Discovering Britain's lost railways" Atterbury, P: Basingstoke, AA Publishing ISBN 978-0-7495-6370-7
^ Detailed closure schedules
^ Freight details
^ IR archives Archived 2006-10-14 at the Wayback Machine