IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Lustleigh, NEWTON ABBOT, TQ13 9TL

A view from the gate shown in Image On the left are terracettes in a steep field. The houses just beyond are along the road to Casely Court, while the group of houses across the valley right of centre are at Brookfield. Kelly Farm, the more distant white building beneath Tinhill Copse, is in Image

The station is now used as a private residence. The line used to run in front of the station, parallel to the hedge row. To the right it passes under the road, from which this photograph was taken. When the line was open there were a couple of holiday carriages parked on a siding in front of the station. One of these coaches can be seen in a photograph at http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/l/lustleigh/index.shtml which has a number of other pictures of the station and information on the railway line.

The view in Image is transformed in summer. Trees have come and gone along the roadside hedge.

An over-optimistic sign in Lustleigh.

Autotrain departing towards Newton Abbot, typical formation consisting of a former Great Western Railway 14xx tank engine propelling a single autocoach. This type of train formed the basic service on the Moretonhampstead branch. The No Thoroughfare notice on the right is classic GWR style of white painted cut-out wooden letters on a black wooden board. This would have been a very early photograph from my own collection, taken with my first camera, a Box-Brownie 620. A slow shutter speed, not ideal for taking moving objects, as the quality of the image shows!

Waiting for the train. Together with friends from London, our family took a camping coach holiday during the Easter vacation. This was the time of the Suez Crisis so a railway- rather than car-based holiday was in order. Camping coaches were old coaches converted into the equivalent of a mobile home with some compartments converted into bunk rooms with lounge and kitchen accommodation. This view also shows the very basic facilities at this station. Just a single platform and a single siding for the small amount of goods traffic that would have originated. The camping coach was parked at the head of the siding giving direct access to the platform.

A road through the village.

Classic branch line station with single platform. Note the beautifully maintained garden in the foreground, on land which was intended to allow for a passing loop to be installed at a later date if required. The station building survives, much extended, as a private residence.