Lydford railway station information

Lydford railway station was a junction at Lydford between the Great Western Railway (GWR) and London and South Western Railway (LSWR) situated in a remote...

Lydford, sometimes spelled Lidford, is a village, once an important town, in Devon, seven miles (11 km) north of Tavistock on the western fringe of Dartmoor...

referred to as narrow gauge) trains of the London and South Western Railway between Lydford and Plymouth: a third rail was provided, making a mixed gauge....

further west to Lydford railway station with the inauguration of Meldon Viaduct in 1874. Constructed to rival the South Devon Railway route to Plymouth...

point on the whole of the Southern Railway, at 950 feet (290 m) above sea level.[page needed] The GWR route from Lydford to Plymouth crossed many valleys...

Halt was a railway station opened in 1938 by the Great Western Railway to serve the hamlet of Liddaton that lies between Coryton and Lydford in West Devon...

should the railway lines around Plymouth be damaged by World War II bombing. Other connections were installed at Lydford railway station and at St Budeaux...

Devonport and South Western Junction Railway's line from Lydford to Plymouth, between Lydford and Tavistock. It opened on 1 June 1890 and closed on 6 May...

and Cornwall Railway opened from Coleford Junction to North Tawton on 1 November 1865, and in stages from there to Lidford (later Lydford) on 12 October...

as Lydford railway station, then over the Great Western Railway's Launceston branch via Tavistock and the South Devon main line to Mutley railway station...

Western Railway (LSWR) in 1865. Services on the line were extended further west to Okehampton Road by 1867 and then on to Lydford railway station with the...

to Lydford, enabling the LSWR to reach Plymouth independently of the Great Western Railway – was immediately leased to the LSWR. Bere Alston station was...

and Cornwall Railway and construction began in 1864 and the line to Lidford was opened on 12 October 1874. Lidford was renamed as Lydford on 3 June 1897...

travelled over the company's line as far as Lydford railway station, then over the Great Western Railway (GWR) Launceston branch[page needed] via Tavistock...

LSWR had reached Lidford (now spelt Lydford) in Devon in 1874, giving it access to Plymouth over the South Devon Railway, and in 1879 it built a branch from...

Lydford-on-Fosse but was named the larger neighbouring village of Keinton Mandeville in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England. The station...

Dousland railway station, originally opened at Dousland Barn in 1883 was located on the 10.5 mile long single track branch railway line in Devon, England...

1898 - 1904 (formerly station master at Lydford, afterwards station master at Yeoford) Percy Lodder 1904 - 1911 (afterwards station master at Teddington)...

extended further west to Lydford with the inauguration of Meldon Viaduct in 1874. Constructed to rival the South Devon Railway route to Plymouth, the completion...

Western Railway (GWR). The Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway opened the station on 2 June 1890 with its main line from Lydford to Devonport...

24 January 2013. Retrieved 6 July 2020. "Princetown station on OS 25 inch map Devon CVI.12 (Lydford; Walkhampton)". National Library of Scotland. 1905...

Tamerton Foliot was a railway station, built by the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway (PDSWJR) on its line from Lydford to Devonport Kings...

powers over the South Devon Railway; an independent route by-passing the competing South Devon Railway was opened from Lydford to Devonport 1890. The rocky...

Croscombe Dean – Dinder – Ditcheat – Doulting – Draycott – Dulcote East Lydford – East Pennard – Easton – Emborough – Evercreech Farleigh Hungerford –...

company, the Devon and Cornwall Railway, to promote a line from Coleford Junction, north-west of Crediton, to Lydford (at first spelt Lidford,) round...

Lidford (spelt Lydford from 1897) on 12 October 1874. The Launceston and South Devon Railway had been absorbed by the South Devon Railway in 1869, but under...