General information | |||||
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Location | Sampford Courtenay, West Devon England | ||||
Grid reference | SX626985 | ||||
Managed by | Dartmoor Railway | ||||
Platforms | 1 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | SMC | ||||
Key dates | |||||
1867 | Opened | ||||
5 June 1972 | Closed to passengers by British Rail | ||||
2002 | Re-opened by the Dartmoor Railway | ||||
2008 | Dartmoor Railway services temporarily withdrawn, County Summer Sunday service retained | ||||
2009 | Dartmoor Railway services reintroduced alongside County Summer Sunday service | ||||
8 September 2019 | Last train ran (Dartmoor Railway) | ||||
March 2021 | Indefinite closure announced[1] | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2016/17 | 144 | ||||
2017/18 | 188 | ||||
2018/19 | 186 | ||||
2019/20 | 240 | ||||
2020/21 | 0 | ||||
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Sampford Courtenay railway station is a disused railway station at Belstone Corner, which used to serve the nearby (1.6 miles) village of Sampford Courtenay in Devon. The village lies 3 minutes away by car or around 30 minutes by foot via the B3215. In 2018–19 it was the least used station in Devon and in the South West and the tenth least used station in Great Britain.[2] In 2020-21 it was the joint least used station in Great Britain with zero passengers.
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