Halwill Junction railway station

Halwill Junction
View northward, towards Wadebridge and Padstow in 1964
Location
Place	Halwill
Area	Torridge
Grid reference	SS443000
Operations
Pre-grouping	LSWR (1879-1923) and NCR (1886-1923)
Post-grouping	SR (1923-48) and NDCJR (1925 to 1948) BR (1948 to 1966)
Platforms	4 (2 through and 2 bay)
History
20 January 1879	Opened (Beaworthy)
July 1879	Renamed (Halwill and Beaworthy)
21 July 1886	Becomes a junction station
March 1887	Renamed (Halwill Junction)
1 January 1923	Renamed (Halwill)
3 October 1966	Closed
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Halwill Junction Railway Station was a railway station near the villages of Halwill and Beaworthy in Devon, England. It opened in 1879 and formed an important junction between the now-closed Bude Branch and North Cornwall line. It closed in 1966 along with the lines which it served, a casualty of the Beeching Report.

The station was opened in January 1879 by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) following the extension of its line from Meldon Junction on the Okehampton to Plymouth line to Holsworthy on the new Bude Branch. Five years later, it became a junction station with the construction by the North Cornwall Railway of a line south to Launceston which gave the latter company a direct through route over LSWR metals to London Waterloo. The opening of the route south led to the renaming of the station - to Halwill Junction - in March 1887. By the close of the century both lines had been extended - the Bude Branch reaching Bude by 10 August 1898 and the North Cornwall Line to Padstow by 23 March 1899.

A third route stretching out to the north towards Torrington was opened on 27 July 1925 by the North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway. This was served by a separate uncovered platform outside the main station building, situated to the north. The station now became officially known as Halwill, although its running-in board provided a fuller description of the routes available, proudly announcing Halwill for Beaworthy, junction for the Bude, North Cornwall & Torrington Lines.