Thorverton railway station was on the Exe Valley Railway from Exeter St Davids

Exeter St Davids railway station

Exeter St Davids station is the most important of seven National Rail stations in the city of Exeter in southwest England. Today the station is owned by Network Rail and operated by First Great Western.-History:...

 to Dulverton

Dulverton railway station

Dulverton railway station was the largest intermediate station on the Devon and Somerset Railway, which ran from Taunton to Barnstaple. The station served the town of Dulverton and from 1884 acted also as the junction station for the Exe Valley Railway, which ran through Bampton, Devon and Tiverton...

. It opened in 1885 on the section from Stoke Canon to Tiverton

Tiverton railway station

Tiverton railway station served the town of Tiverton, Devon, England. It opened in 1848 as the terminus station of a broad gauge branch line from the Bristol and Exeter Railway main line: the main line junction station four miles away had originally been called Tiverton Road but was renamed as ...

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Thorverton

Thorverton

Thorverton is a village in Devon, England, about a mile west of the River Exe and north of Exeter. It is almost centrally located between Exeter and the towns of Tiverton and Crediton and contains the hamlets of Yellowford and Raddon. It is surrounded by beautiful hill scenery. It has two churches...

village was poorly served by the road network and bus services with the result that the station was one of the best-used on the Exe Valley line. The station also generated a lot of goods traffic, primarily from the Thorverton Mill, a watermill that was connected by a long siding to the station. Both the station and the stationmaster's house remain, the former much extended and in residential use.

Thorverton closed to passenger traffic with the rest of the Exe Valley line on 7 October 1963. Goods traffic ceased on 4 May 1964.