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Xenophon PCDGS

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Pushing the boundaries a bit - Cowley Bridge station was built but never opened - so it's closed?

Using a logic peculiar to me, if a station was never officially opened after the railway company expounded monies on its construction, it never saw any passenger usage. Thank goodness there are not all that many such entities.

Cowley Bridge as an area seems fated to suffer from the effects of flooding in the area of the junction, as has been seen in quite recent times.


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Watergate Halt

Yarde Halt
 
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Welshman

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MEETH HALT, situated between Meeth Works and Hatherleigh, with its single concrete platform was opened on 27th July 1926 and closed on 1st March 1965
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Hole.

Actually, I had "Meeth Halt" on my list, but when you posted "Meeth Works" I thought that was an alternative name for the Halt!!

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Padstow....is the final closed station on this journey
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We now move to Scotland for the next journey...

This quiz is number 118 so far...

The journey starts at the CLOSED station of Fort Augustus Pier
It follows the line of the Invergarry to Fort Augustus Railway
It then follows the line of the West Highland Railway
It then follows the line of the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
It then follows the line of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway...Using the Ratho loop line
It then follows the line of the Edinburgh and Hawick Railway
It then follows the line of the Border Union Railway
It then follows the line of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
It then follows the line of the Eden Valley Railway
It then follows the line of the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway
It then follows the line of the Tees Valley line
It then follows the line of the East Coast Main Line
It then follows the line of the Leeds and Northallerton Railway
It then follows the line of the North Midland Railway
It then follows the line of the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway
It then follows the line of the South Staffordshire Railway
It then follows the line of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
It then follows the line of the Cherwell Valley line
It then follows the line of the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway
The journey ends at the CLOSED station of Winchester (Chesil)

The first closed station on this journey is Fort Augustus Pier
 

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There was also a private platform serving the RNAD after Fort Augustus - I've forgotten how we regard private stations in this quiz
 

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There was also a private platform serving the RNAD after Fort Augustus - I've forgotten how we regard private stations in this quiz

I note what you say about this and there seems to be somewhat of a difference of opinion on such matters between Scottish private stations such as the one that you quote with military involvement and that, for example, of Singer Halt which was built to serve the large workforce of the Singer factory.
I have consulted my usual oracle for a second opinion, the Disused Stations website, who do have full details on Fort Augustus station and a full line history with the usual map of all stations on this line and there is no mention whatsoever of the RNAD platform, which tends me to think that it will be classified as a goods and supplies receiving platform only.
 

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There was also a private platform serving the RNAD after Fort Augustus - I've forgotten how we regard private stations in this quiz


So had I - that's why I didn't include it!!


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