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Pullabrook Halt was a railway station opened in 1931 by the
Pullabrook Halt was a railway station opened in 1931 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 ...
to serve the hamlet of Pullabrook that lies between Bovey Tracey and Lustleigh
Lustleigh is a small village and civil parish nestled in the Wrey Valley, inside the Dartmoor National Park in Devon, England. It is between the towns of Bovey Tracey and Moretonhampstead.
The village is focused around the parish church of St ...
in West Devon, England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
. Opened as Hawkmoor Halt after Hawkmoor Hospital
Hawkmoor Hospital, originally known as Hawkmoor County Sanatorium, was a specialist hospital near Bovey Tracey in Devon, founded in 1913 as a pulmonary tuberculosis sanatorium as part of a network of such facilities, instigated by the Public Healt ...
, originally known as Hawkmoor County Sanatorium, a specialist hospital founded in 1913 as a pulmonary tuberculosis sanatorium. It was renamed Pullabrook Halt by the British Railways in 1955, a few years before closure.
The halt was opened at a later date than most of the stations on the line which had itself opened in 1876. The single platform's construction was of infill behind railway sleepers. The track was single with no passing loop or sidings.
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. {{coord, 50.6075, -3.7078, type:railwaystation_region:GB_source:npemap.org.uk-enwiki, display=title Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1931 Disused railway stations in Devon Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1959