The North Cornwall Railway
HALWILL
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The Halwill station building as it was in the mid 1980s, viewed
from the front of the building. Photograph by Ron Strutt. |
| The platform side of the building, also photographed by Ron Strutt. |
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The inside of Halwill's Booking Office, seen here as
photographed by Ron Strutt in the mid 1980s. |
| This was the brick slaughterhouse built by the Southern Railway
in 1938 to replace the previous wooden one. Photographed by Ron Strutt in
the mid 1980s. |
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Goods sheds are frequently survivors after the closure of a
railway station, and Halwill's was still in good condition when
photographed by Ron Strutt in the mid 1980s. |
| All over the country you see the late and much-maligned Dr
Beeching's name commemorated in road names where once the train was king,
and Halwill is no exception. The road that winds through the estate built on
the station area is yet another "Beeching Close". |
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The site of Halwill station today has been built over and the
view on the left is taken with the photographer facing south, looking towards
the station area and with the route of the North Cornwall Line behind him. |
| The opposite view from the above showing work in progress to
turn some of the disused trackbed into a cycle path in 2004. |
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