In line with the UK GOV guidelines we are thrilled to be able to welcome back visitors in a very safe and COVID compliant environment.
Fortunately, we have lots of space at Woody Bay Station which means that our visitors can easily maintain social distancing.
Our timetable is HERE. But before visiting, please do check our main website and social media channels for any late changes to our planned opening days and train departure times.
Our design engineer, John Barton, is about to order all the geo-environmental survey work required before reconstruction of the railway can begin from Killington Lane to Wistlandpound. This work involves test bores along the whole route to check for contamination (possible hazardous waste dumped in cuttings), the suitability of any infill for future use in embankment reconstruction and the nature of the ground where new bridge construction is required.
The Veronica Awdry Charitable Trust have given a grant of £1500 to help fund the ground investigations at Killington Lane which will test the nature of the infill in the cuttings either side of the former Bridge 65 (Killington Lane overbridge) as well as determining the nature of the soil upon which the new Bridge 65 foundations will sit.
Thanks are due to the Veronica Awdry Charitable Trust (Veronica Awdry is the daughter of the Reverend Awdry of Thomas the Tank fame) for their donation to fund to this vital piece of work.
Paul Curson - Trustee
The only steam railway in the UK where on every journey, passengers travel in Victorian railway carriages designed in the 1890's
These unique historic carriages cannot be seen anywhere other than here in North Devon
LEADER 5 Grant towards the reconstruction of Bridge No's. 54 and 55
This project enabled the Lynton & Barnstaple Trust to construct two essential bridges between Wistlandpound Reservoir and Blackmoor Gate as part of the extension of the railway in North Devon
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We are hard at work on the project to extend the railway to Blackmoor, Wistlandpound and eventually back to Lynton
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It's been a long and difficult job – to find out why CLICK HERE
Social Enterprise in Action
More than eighty years after its closure in 1935, you can once more board a train of original L&B carriages at England's highest narrow-gauge railway station - the delightfully named Woody Bay Station - 1,000 feet up on wild Exmoor.
Operated almost entirely by volunteers, we are a "non-profit" organisation owned by its members with the mission to fully restore the legendary Lynton & Barnstaple Railway.
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