Woody Bay station was built in part to serve the expected development of a resort at Woody Bay, a mile or so to the north. A pier was built in the bay, although little further development took place, and the pier was destroyed by heavy seas before any trade could be established with passing steamers, and the development was abandoned when the promoter went into liquidation in 1900, and although a route was surveyed for a branch line to the bay, it was never constructed.
From 1923 the line was operated by the Southern Railway. It closed on 29 September 1935.
Following purchase by the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Company in 1995, restoration of the station began, and it opened as a Visitors' Centre in 2003. An "out and back" service over a few hundred yards of track began in 2004, and with the opening of a temporary station at Killington Lane about a mile towards Parracombe Halt, a regular "point to point" service started in 2006.
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Hunslet D6652 is a slightly older sister engine to our other diesel locomotive D6660 "Heddon Hall" both are 60hp diesel locos built in 1965 and operated at Dean Hill Royal Naval Armaments Depot (RNAD) - later known as Defence Munitions Dean Hill, West Dean, Wiltshire.
A munitions depot for the Royal Navy it was in use as a munitions storage facility since the 1940s and had facilities for the underground storage of an extraordinary amount of munitions, including a bunker to hold nuclear warheads. Surplus to Ministry of Defence requirements, the site was decommissioned in 2003 and put out to tender in November 2005.
After the facility closed, 6652 was briefly on display at the “Explosion” museum in Gosport, from where it was purchased by the L&B in August, 2007 along with a box van, flat wagon and wooden bodied brake van. Built to 2’ 6" gauge all needed regauging before being used on the railway.
www.lynton-rail.org.uk/railway/rolling-stock/hunslet-d6652
D2393 "PILTON" 0-6-0 150hp diesel mechanical locomotive No.2393 of 1952 manufactured for the Drewry Car Company by EE Baguley of Burton-on-Trent. Exported to Victoria Mill (about 110km north of Townsville) Queensland Australia. Originally numbered D3 Renamed Leichhardt, 1974. Out of use by 1989.
1996 to Illawarra Light Railway Museum Society, Albion Park, NSW.
2001 Bought and repatriated by the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Trust and renamed PILTON.
Originally stored at Williton at the West Somerset Railway and then to Greensbrook, Clutton, Bristol.
In 2005 it went to Statfold Barn Railway, Tamworth, Staffordshire where it was completely rebuilt and as the original Gardner 8LW K type 150HP engine was deemed an uneconomic repair, a Cummins engine was installed.
www.lynton-rail.org.uk/railway/rolling-stock/pilton
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Hunslet D6652 is a slightly older sister engine to our other diesel locomotive D6660 "Heddon Hall" both are 60hp diesel locos built in 1965 and operated at Dean Hill Royal Naval Armaments Depot (RNAD) - later known as Defence Munitions Dean Hill, West Dean, Wiltshire.
A munitions depot for the Royal Navy it was in use as a munitions storage facility since the 1940s and had facilities for the underground storage of an extraordinary amount of munitions, including a bunker to hold nuclear warheads. Surplus to Ministry of Defence requirements, the site was decommissioned in 2003 and put out to tender in November 2005.
After the facility closed, 6652 was briefly on display at the “Explosion” museum in Gosport, from where it was purchased by the L&B in August, 2007 along with a box van, flat wagon and wooden bodied brake van. Built to 2’ 6" gauge all needed regauging before being used on the railway.
www.lynton-rail.org.uk/railway/rolling-stock/hunslet-d6652
D2393 "PILTON" 0-6-0 150hp diesel mechanical locomotive No.2393 of 1952 manufactured for the Drewry Car Company by EE Baguley of Burton-on-Trent. Exported to Victoria Mill (about 110km north of Townsville) Queensland Australia. Originally numbered D3 Renamed Leichhardt, 1974. Out of use by 1989.
1996 to Illawarra Light Railway Museum Society, Albion Park, NSW.
2001 Bought and repatriated by the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Trust and renamed PILTON.
Originally stored at Williton at the West Somerset Railway and then to Greensbrook, Clutton, Bristol.
In 2005 it went to Statfold Barn Railway, Tamworth, Staffordshire where it was completely rebuilt and as the original Gardner 8LW K type 150HP engine was deemed an uneconomic repair, a Cummins engine was installed.
www.lynton-rail.org.uk/railway/rolling-stock/pilton
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Woody Bay station was built in part to serve the expected development of a resort at Woody Bay, a mile or so to the north. A pier was built in the bay, although little further development took place, and the pier was destroyed by heavy seas before any trade could be established with passing steamers, and the development was abandoned when the promoter went into liquidation in 1900, and although a route was surveyed for a branch line to the bay, it was never constructed.
From 1923 the line was operated by the Southern Railway. It closed on 29 September 1935.
Following purchase by the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Company in 1995, restoration of the station began, and it opened as a Visitors' Centre in 2003. An "out and back" service over a few hundred yards of track began in 2004, and with the opening of a temporary station at Killington Lane about a mile towards Parracombe Halt, a regular "point to point" service started in 2006.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Bay_railway_station
Tags: Woody Bay Woody Bay Station Woody Bay Railway Station Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Lynton and Barnstaple L&B L&BR Exmoor Devon North Devon
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Woody Bay station was built in part to serve the expected development of a resort at Woody Bay, a mile or so to the north. A pier was built in the bay, although little further development took place, and the pier was destroyed by heavy seas before any trade could be established with passing steamers, and the development was abandoned when the promoter went into liquidation in 1900, and although a route was surveyed for a branch line to the bay, it was never constructed.
From 1923 the line was operated by the Southern Railway. It closed on 29 September 1935.
Following purchase by the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Company in 1995, restoration of the station began, and it opened as a Visitors' Centre in 2003. An "out and back" service over a few hundred yards of track began in 2004, and with the opening of a temporary station at Killington Lane about a mile towards Parracombe Halt, a regular "point to point" service started in 2006.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Bay_railway_station
Tags: Woody Bay Woody Bay Station Woody Bay Railway Station Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Lynton and Barnstaple L&B L&BR Exmoor Devon North Devon
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