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Chudleigh Knighton Halt was on the Teign Valley Line serving the small village of
Retrieved : 2012-10-08 The A38 road now runs over the site of the halt and nothing remains of the station.
Chudleigh Knighton Halt was on the Teign Valley Line serving the small village of Chudleigh Knighton
Chudleigh Knighton is a small village in Devon, England, near to Newton Abbot and Bovey Tracey.
Amenities
Chudleigh Knighton Church of England Primary School has around 167 pupils, aged 5 to 11. The school has six classrooms on two floors.
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, Devon
Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devon is ...
, England
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. The halt, built by the Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...
at a later date than most of the other stations on the line, was located on the west side of Pipehouse Lane off the B3344, to the south of the village.
The first station was constructed of timber with a small corrugated iron pagoda shelter and a simple nameboard, at a cost £300. After WW2 a concrete platform was provided. A level crossing was located at the platform end. The track was still in situ in 1969, but goods facilities were withdrawn on 4 December 1967.
Passenger numbers reached their peak in the 1930s with seven daily services provided each way between Exeter and Heathfield. During World War 2 this was reduced to four trains in each direction, still with no trains on a Sunday. This was increased to five daily trains after the war.Disused StationsRetrieved : 2012-10-08 The A38 road now runs over the site of the halt and nothing remains of the station.
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;Notes ;Sources * * * * Disused railway stations in Devon Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1924 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1958 Former Great Western Railway stations {{SouthWestEngland-railstation-stub