Abbotsham Road | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Bideford, Torridge |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 51.0273°N -4.2527°W |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Platforms: | 2 |
Original: | Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway |
Years: | 20 May 1901 |
Events: | Station opens |
Years1: | 28 March 1917 |
Events1: | Station closes |
Abbotsham Road railway station was a small railway station on the independent Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway in the English county of Devon. It lay 2 miles and 50 chains from Bideford Quay.[1]
Previously named Mudcott, the station was in open countryside at the Mudcott Road level crossing. It was known as Mudcott Passing Loop until the passenger platforms were brought into use.[2]
It had a passing loop, two wooden platforms and what appears to have been a ticket office-cum-signal box hut. No freight facilities were provided.[3] The signal box was probably connected by phone to the signal boxes at Bideford Yard and The Causeway.[4]
Christie records that the railway company had built a path to allow volunteers from the local militia in Bideford to walk to their nearby rifle range and that this was "a pretty station in the midst of trees."