Up Exe Halt railway station
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Up Exe Halt was a small railway station in the hamlet of Up Exe 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...

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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 ...

 as Up Exe and Silverton but was renamed in 1905, Silverton already having a station nearer the village on the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Bristol and Exeter Railway
The Bristol & Exeter Railway was a railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter.The company's head office was situated outside their Bristol station...

main line.
From October 1923, Up Exe was designated as a halt and unstaffed. There were no goods facilities at Up Exe.

Up Exe Halt closed with the rest of the Exe Valley line on 7 October 1963. Both the station and the stationmaster's house remain in residential use.
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