Place Alphington Original company Great Western Railway 2 April 1928 Station opens Platforms in use 1 | Area Exeter Post-grouping Great Western Railway 9 June 1958 Station closes | |
Original companies Teign Valley Line, Great Western Railway Similar Ide Halt railway station, Chudleigh Knighton Halt railw, Longdown railway station, Christow railway station, Ashton (Devon) railway st | ||
Alphington Halt railway station was a small station serving the village of Alphington (now a suburb of Exeter) located on the Teign Valley Line, which opened in 1882 and closed in 1961. This diverged from the South Devon Main Line at Exeter and joined the Netwon Abbot to Moretonhampstead line at Heathfield .
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History
Alphington Halt had a 100ft long wooden platform with a flat roofed corrugated shelter located on the eastern side of the single track line with no sidings or passing loop.
Opened by the Great Western Railway in 1928, the station then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
The station was then closed in June 1958 by the British Transport Commission.
The site today
All that remains in the area of the Halt are the stone foundations of the bridge that once carried the line over Church Road, and the railway embankment which can be followed as far as the end of Ide Lane, where it was destroyed by the building of the A30 dual carriageway. The trackbed re-emerges west of the site of Ide station a little further down the line.
The site has been developed as residential property, modishly called "the halt at alphington".