Hatherleigh Railway Station was a station on the

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between Torrington and

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, serving the town of Hatherleigh. Hatherleigh was the largest place with a station on the line, though the town was almost two miles away. Like others on this line, the station itself was small but it was a passing place on the mainly single-track railway. The stationmaster at Hatherleigh also looked after the other stations on the line, even those, such as Petrockstow and

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, that were staffed. The line was opened in 1925 and was operated by the Southern Railway, though it remained a private line until it became part of the

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in 1948. The line closed in 1965"Discovering Britain's lost railways" Atterbury,P: Basingstoke, AA Publishing as part of the Beeching proposals, goods services having been withdrawn the previous year.

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