Alphington Halt railway station

Alphington
Location
Place	Alphington
Area	Exeter
Operations
Line	Teign Valley Line
Original company	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	1
History
2 April 1928	Station opens
9 June 1958	Station closes
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Alphington Halt railway station was a small station on the Teign Valley Line, which operated in the South West England county of Devon, diverging from the Great Western Main Line at Exeter. The branch opened in 1882 and closed in 1961.

History

Alphington Halt had a 100ft long wooden platform with a flat roofed corrugated shelter located on the eastern side of the single track line with no sidings or passing loop.

Opened by the Great Western Railway, it stayed part of that railway company during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The station was then closed in June 1958 by the British Transport Commission.

The site today

All that remains in the area of the Halt are the stone foundations of the bridge that once carried the line over Church Road, and the railway embankment which can be followed as far as the end of Ide Lane, where is was destroyed by the building of the A30 dual carriageway. The trackbed re-emerges west of the site of Ide station a little further down the line.

The site has been developed as residential property, modishly called "the halt at alphington".

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Exeter St Thomas		Great Western Railway Teign Valley Line		Ide Halt

References

• Station on navigable O.S. map