Pullabrook Halt railway station explained

Pullabrook Halt
Status:Disused
Borough:Pullabrook, Teignbridge
Country:England
Grid Name:Grid reference
Platforms:1
Postgroup:Great Western Railway
Years:1 June 1931
Events:Opened as Hawkmoor Halt[1]
Years2:13 June 1955
Events2:Renamed Pullabrook Halt
Years3:2 March 1959
Events3:Closed to passengers[2]
Years4:1964
Events4:Line closed to goods traffic

Pullabrook Halt was a railway station opened in 1931 by the Great Western Railway to serve the hamlet of Pullabrook that lies between Bovey Tracey and Lustleigh in West Devon, England. Opened as Hawkmoor Halt after Hawkmoor Hospital, originally known as Hawkmoor County Sanatorium, a specialist hospital founded in 1913 as a pulmonary tuberculosis sanatorium.[3] It was renamed Pullabrook Halt by the British Railways in 1955, a few years before closure.

The halt was opened at a later date than most of the stations on the line which had itself opened in 1876. The single platform's construction was of infill behind railway sleepers. The track was single with no passing loop or sidings.

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Notes and References

  1. Butt, Page 116
  2. Butt, Page 192
  3. Web site: The National Archives. Hospital Records - Hawkwoor (Ex).