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Ashbury railway station

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Place
  
Ashbury

Post-grouping
  
Southern Railway

Area
  
West Devon

Ashbury railway station

Pre-grouping
  
London and South Western Railway

20 January 1879
  
Station opens as Ashbury

April 1890
  
Station renamed Ashbury and North Lew

Original company
  
London and South Western Railway

Similar
  
Halwill Junction railway st, Dunsland Cross railway st, Holsworthy railway station, Coronation Chair

Ashbury railway station was located on the Okehampton to Bude Line 3¾ miles east of Halwill Junction, and served the hamlet of Ashbury and the village of Northlew in the English county of Devon.

History

Opened by the London and South Western Railway, the station was absorbed by the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923, In 1948 with nationalisation the station then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways and later Western Region of British Railways. The station was subsequently closed by the British Railways Board.

References

Ashbury railway station Wikipedia