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Place
  
Moretonhampstead

Post-grouping
  
Great Western Railway

2 March 1959
  
Closed to passengers

Area
  
Teignbridge

4 July 1866
  
Opened

Platforms in use
  
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1964
  
Line closed to goods traffic

Similar
  
Bovey railway station, Pullabrook Halt railway st, Lustleigh railway station, Teigngrace Halt railway st, Heathfield (Devon) railway st

Moretonhampstead railway station was the terminus of the Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway at Moretonhampstead, Devon, England.

The station was situated on the south side of the town by the road to Bovey Tracey. The platform was 300 feet long and mostly covered by a wooden train shed. Beyond the train shed was a short platform with cattle pens.

South of the station was a goods shed and engine shed. The signal box was unusually built onto the side of the engine shed.

In 1929 the Great Western Railway, which now owned the line, opened the Manor House Hotel just outside Moretonhampstead. Set in 193 acres (0.78 km2), it boasted a golf course and also attracted holidaymakers to visit Dartmoor.

After the railway closed to passengers on 28 February 1959, regular goods trains continued until 6 April 1964, although British Railways continued to use the station as a base for its road goods services until the end of the year. The goods and engine sheds for many years continued to be used by a commercial road haulage business.

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Moretonhampstead railway station Wikipedia