Bideford Railway Heritage Centre

The Bideford Railway Heritage Centre CIC in Devon, England, is answerable for the control of the Bideford station website. The Company is likewise liable for Instow sign container which opens on occasional Sundays and financial institution vacations from Easter to October. The line turned into opened from Barnstaple to Fremington in 1848. Passenger trains ran during from Barnstaple railway station to Bideford from 2 November 1855 because the Bideford Extension Railway. The line was further prolonged to Torrington in 1872 while the present day Bideford railway station became opened. Passenger services ceased on 2 October 1965 even though ball clay site visitors continued until 1982. The track become removed in 1985 after a few interest through BR in reintroducing a passenger carrier to Bideford.

The trackbed was later transformed into the Tarka Trail, a walkway the use of the formation among Petrockstow and Barnstaple Junction. A railway museum exists in the rebuilt Bideford sign container and additionally in the green PMV. Short passenger rides had been given at Bideford until vandalism quickly prevented services operating. The site become mothballed rapidly afterwards when housing improvement threatened to encroach on to the trackbed. This risk has now been removed and the corporation is working on renovating the website and rolling inventory, in order that offerings can recommence.