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The legendary Lynton and Barnstaple Railway is one of the world’s most famous narrow-gauge lines. Running as it did, across high, isolated moorlands, through wooded valleys and past tumbling streams, it was also one of the most scenic. The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Trust, working through its operating arm, the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Company, is working to revive the atmosphere, charm, and memory of the 'Toy Train to Lynton', which with its solidly built carriages and handsome fleet of steam locomotives - Exe, Taw, Yeo, Lyn & Lew (named after local rivers) - carried passengers to and from the standard gauge lines at Barnstaple and "Little Switzerland" on Devons Northern coast, becoming an integral part of the local community throughout its mere 37 years of existance.
On the day after the line closed, The Barnstaple Town stationmaster laid a wreath on the stop-block , with the inscription "Perchance it is not dead but sleepeth".
The L&B has been a long time sleeping, but
part of the line has at long last reopened at Woody Bay, one of the
principle stations of the line. Within the Exmoor National Park
area, the Visitor's Centre is open, and a regular passenger service operates to Killington Lane, a mile towards Barnstaple, every day during the summer, and at other times throughout the year.
Growing evidence of the reawakening of the line that has been
slumbering for over seventy years...
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