Barnstaple and Ilfracombe Railway






Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This sign at Barnstaple gives you up-to-date local transport information, but also reminds you of Southern Railway colours. A nice mix. We saw well ...
Ken Strachan 05/04/2023
Here is the Exeter end of that 158 at Barnstaple (see image 85516). This would be a dull picture in daylight - sometimes there is an upside to my ...
Ken Strachan 05/04/2023
The 20.41 to Exeter St.Davids awaits its departure time at Barnstaple. ...
Ken Strachan 05/04/2023
Recently arrived train at Barnstaple in the summer of 2002. ...
Ian Dinmore 05/06/2002
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View from an Ilfracombe-bound train leaving the River Taw bridge in Barnstaple in 1964 and running towards Barnstaple Town station. The locomotive was ...
Brian Haslehust /07/1964
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The old goods shed at Braunton see image 56400 is now the Museum of British Surfing. I assume that is an outdoor activity, as opposed to Internet ...
Ken Strachan 14/04/2017
Another view of the now-incongruous signal at Braunton see image 56400. The railway path to Barnstaple resumes to the right of the street sign in ...
Ken Strachan 28/08/2016
One of only two 'Signal Court's in the UK. This signal, which presumably used to have a longer ladder, once stood at the Southern limit of Braunton ...
Ken Strachan 28/08/2016
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It is entertaining to compare the buildings. The building and most of the awning on the left are careful copies of the original railway building on ...
Ken Strachan //2007
Unfortunately Mortehoe and Woolacombe station, which was reused first as a restaurant, then as an adventure playground for children, does not have ...
Ken Strachan //2007
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GWR Ilfracombe Poster from 1882. ...
Ian Dinmore //2016
The magnificient South approach to Ilfracombe (1 in 36 down; the factory slightly left of centre is built on the former station site). ...
Ken Strachan //2007
Preservation attempts having failed, Ilfracombe station is bulldozed into rubble in September 1976. Hopefully, the station nameplate (cast concrete ...
Mark Dufton /09/1976
Looking as if it has received a direct hit from a missile, the terminus at Ilfracombe undergoing demolition on 8th September 1976. We might imagine a ...
Mark Dufton 08/09/1976
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