Photograph Notes: The small signal box at Staverton Station on the South Devon Railway. The line was built by the South Devon Railway and first opened on 1st May 1872. It was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1876. The Ashburton branch, along with many other rural branch lines, never made a profit. Goods traffic, mainly coal, wool, cider and agricultural items were the lifeblood of the line and such was the volume of goods traffic that an extension had to be built to the goods shed at Buckfastleigh in 1906. Continuing to run through two World Wars, nationalised in 1948, the decline came to a head on 3rd November 1958 when the last passenger train ran, before even Dr. Beeching came on the scene. Freight however, continued until September 1962 when that finally dwindled to nothing. The line closed to all traffic on 7th September 1962 and was re-opened as a preserved steam line on 5th April 1969.

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