Watergate Halt railway station - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

"It was one of those moments you always remember - a first glimpse, caught through the dappled sunlight of a woodland glade. Deep within the heart of North Devon, I came across this tiny wayside halt, no longer than a single carriage length."

Watergate Halt was an intermediate halt on the initially privately run North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway. A remote rural station with one small siding used by a local farmer, it was closed in 1966 and now forms part of the popular Tarka trail

Tarka Trail

The Tarka Trail is a series of footpaths and cyclepaths around north Devon, England that follow the route taken by Tarka the Otter in the book of that name. It is a figure-of-eight route, based on Barnstaple, and covers some of path....

, a route for ramblers promoted by the local council.

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