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Halwill Junction railway station
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.
== History ==
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.〔("Halwill" on SEMG online )〕
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.〔Branch Lines to Torrington, Mitchell, V. & Smith, K., Midhurst, Middleton Press, 1994, ISBN 1-873793-37-5〕 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''.〔
Always a slightly odd station in the sense that it served no particular large urban conurbation and acted largely as a useful interchange between three different lines, Halwill was at its busiest in the period up to the Second World War when eight sidings were laid to deal with the military traffic in the lead-up to D-Day. It also relied, as did the lines which it served, to a large extent on summer holiday traffic and when this began to dry-up in the late 1950s and early 1960s with the increased use of the motorcar, it became unprofitable and a candidate for closure in the Beeching Report. First proposed for closure in April 1964, Halwill saw its connecting lines close one by one over the next few years - the line north to Torrington closed to passengers on 1 March 1965〔"Discovering Britain's lost railways" Atterbury,P: Basingstoke, AA Publishing ISBN 978-0-7495-6370-7 〕 and those to Bude and Padstow on 3 October 1966, heralding the end for the formerly important railway junction.〔 The line north did, however, remain open between Torrington and Barnstaple for freight until 1982.〔(Freight details )〕
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