Place Teigngrace Grid reference SX8493674220 December 1876 Opened as Teigngrace Platforms in use 1 | Area Teignbridge Post-grouping Great Western Railway 1 January 1919 Closed | |
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Similar Pullabrook Halt railway st, Brimley Halt railway st, Bovey railway station, Lustleigh railway station, Heathfield (Devon) railway st | ||
Teigngrace Halt was a railway station opened as Teigngrace in 1867 by the Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway .
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History
The station was renamed Teigngrace Halt by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1939. It had a single platform, with a ticket office and waiting room, with sidings and a passing loop - now lifted. In around 1961 the South Devon Railway Society leased Teigngrace Halt as their headquarters and carried out some repairs and renovation works.
The platform was still in situ, as was the ruined station building in 1975. The old Stover Canal runs parallel to the line at this point and locks were located nearby.
Freight traffic
The nearby sidings and loading dock lie on the other side of the level crossing and were used for many years for ball clay traffic, however when this ceased and in 2009 the line was mothballed until December 2011 when it was announced that the section of the line to Heathfield would re-opened to facilitate the transport of timber from Heathfield to Chirk in North Wales by Colas Rail. In the same month a timber siding was opened at Teigngrace, just before the level crossing at Exeter Road, to allow the timber to be loaded onto the freight trains. Teigngrace lacks a passing loop and trains and with empty wagons continue up the line to Heathfield to permit locomotives to run around the waggins using the loop in the disused station. The empty freight train then drives back to the timber sidings at Teigngrace to be loaded. Loading of the timber is carried out by the lorries that bring the timber to the sidings. The timber contract ended in late 2015 and the line was mothballed in 2016.
Micro-history
In 1960 the South Devon Railway Society ran a special six coach train The Heart of Devon Rambler from Paignton to Moretonhampstead and repeated the exercise the following year with a special via Teigngrace to the Teign Valley Line. In 1962 a final special excursion train was run by the society to Moretonhampstead.