Brentor Station
Introduction
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Brentor Station
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 18 Apr 1964
View SW, towards Tavistock and Plymouth; ex-London & South Western, Exeter - Okehampton - Plymouth main line. Running parallel on the right is the ex-GWR Plymouth (Tavistock Junction) - Tavistock - Lydford - Launceston line; this by-passed Brentor station and closed 31/12/62 to passengers (7/9/64 to freight). (The heavy requirements of the US Army in the War led to connections being built in 11/43 between the SR and GWR lines at both Lydford and Launceston, and these survived). From 6/5/68, the ex-LSW main lines west of Meldon Junction (Okehampton) were closed completely, including the Plymouth line as far as Bere Alston. Brentor station remains virtually unaltered as a private house. It has featured recently in the Media, this photograph being used on 21/2/14 in a BBC Breakfast TV feature about the Dawlish Wash-Out, referring to the possible reopening of the ex-LSWR main line to Plymouth.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.610356
Longitude
-4.141718