Brimley Halt Railway Station
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Brimley Halt was a railway station open in 1928 by the Great Western Railway (GWR) to serve the village of Brimley that lies between
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. It had a single platform and was located on a curved section of track without a passing loop or sidings. A special train to
Bovey Tracey Bovey Tracey () is a small town and civil parish in Devon, England, on the edge of Dartmoor, its proximity to which gives rise to the "slogan" used on the town's boundary signs, "The Gateway to the Moor". It is often known locally as "Bovey". ...
visited Brimley Halt on 5 July 1970, its last known use by a passenger train. The track had been lifted by 8 September 1975. The site of the station was destroyed by the construction of a new A382 road along the course of the trackbed.The site of Brimley Halt
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References

;Notes ;Sources * Butt, R. V. J. (1995). ''The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present'' (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. . OCLC 60251199. * Kingdom, Anthony. R.; Lang, Mike (2004). ''The Newton Abbot to Moretonhampstead Railway''. Liverton, Newton Abbot: Forest Publishing. . Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1928 Disused railway stations in Devon Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959 Bovey Tracey {{SouthWestEngland-railstation-stub