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Disused railway lines and closed stations in Devon

Devon has 342 miles of disused railway and 128 closed stations, against 52 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 2.5 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Barnstaple Branch, with 26 miles of its route inside Devon.

See Devon’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 342 miles of lost railway in Devon break down as 306 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 28 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left, 4.3 miles with track still in place but no trains and 2.9 miles dismantled. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Devon

59 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Devon; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

LineMiles in county
Barnstaple Branch26
Launceston Branch26
Bude Branch20
Lynton and Barnstaple Railway18
Devon and Cornwall Line15
Ilfracombe Branch15
Teign Valley Line15
North Cornwall Line12
Kingsbridge Branch Line12
Budleigh Salterton Branch11
North Devon Line10
Exe Valley Branch9.1
Sidmouth Branch8.1
Redlake Tramway7.6
Torrington and Halwill Line7.1
Yealmpton Branch6.6
Lyme Regis Branch Line6.3
Culm Valley Branch Line6.3
Granite Way4.7
Rattlebrook Peat Railway4.5
Tiverton and North Devon Railway4.2
Haytor Granite Tramway3.7
Tiverton and North Devon Line3.4
Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway3.2
Zeal Tor Tramway2.9
Lee Moor Tramway2.8
Princetown Branch Line2.5
Mineral Railway Trail2.2
Tarka Trail2.1
Brixham Branch2.0
Seaton Branch1.8
Marsh Mills China Clay Works1.4
Wray Valley Trail1.4
Turnchapel Branch1.3
Barnstaple Loop1.2
Ruby Trail1.2
Plym Valley Trail1.1
Tiverton Branch Line1.1
Cattewater Branch1.0
Exmoor Steam Railway1.0

And 19 shorter stretches: Pegasus Trail, Bideford Westward Ho and Appledore Railway (route of), Sutton Harbour Branch, 'D' Range Target Railway (remains), Riverside Freight Yard, Exeter and Devonport Line, Abandoned tramway, Perridge Tunnel, Bull Point Sidings, Buddleigh Salterton Branch, Cann Tunnel, Exeter Basin Branch, Lundy Quarry Railway, Marsh Mills China Clay Works Line, Old Route of Tiverton and North Devon Railway, Old Tiverton Branch Line, Sorley Tunnel, Plymouth Loop No. 2 and Rolle Quay Branch.

Closed railway stations in Devon

All 128 closed and former stations in Devon, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Devon

52 stations in Devon still have a train service. The busiest are Exeter Central (3.0 million a year), Exeter St Davids (2.9 million a year), Plymouth (2.7 million a year), Newton Abbot (1.3 million a year) and Exmouth (999,764 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Somerset, Cornwall and Dorset.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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