Halwill Junction railway station

Halwill Junction
View northward, towards Wadebridge and Padstow in 1964
General information
LocationHalwill Junction, Torridge
England
Grid referenceSS443000
Platforms4 (2 through and 2 bay)
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Pre-groupingLSWR (1879-1923) and NCR (1886-1923)
Post-groupingSR (1923-48) and NDCJR (1925 to 1948)[1]
BR (1948 to 1966)
Key dates
20 January 1879Opened (Beaworthy)
July 1879Renamed (Halwill and Beaworthy)
21 July 1886Becomes a junction station
March 1887Renamed (Halwill Junction)
1 January 1923Renamed (Halwill)
3 October 1966[2]Closed

Halwill Junction Railway Station was a railway station in Halwill Junction, near the villages of Halwill and Beaworthy in Devon, England. It opened in 1879 and formed an important junction between the now-closed Bude Branch and North Cornwall line. It closed in 1966 along with the lines which it served, a casualty of the Beeching Report.

  1. ^ Details of Independent Status Archived 2007-10-20 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 112.