![]() Station Name: LUSTLEIGH[Source: Dave Holman]
Lustleigh Station: Gallery 1 - Early 20th C - April 1957
![]() Lustleigh Station looking south in the early 20th century. A wide strip of land was purchaed for use as a loop line but this was never used for a loop and the land was use for a station garden.
Copyright photo from John Alsop collection ![]() ![]() 1886 1:2,500 OS map showing the layout of Lustleigh station and goods yard as built.
![]() 1938 1:2,500 OS map. The goods yard has been extended to serve a dock. A number of building have been added to the goods yard. Access to the station from the south along a footpath has now been provided as have steps down from the road ajacent to the bridge. ![]() 1958 1:2,500 OS map. The station is named for the first time. One of the yard buildings has gone and what is assumed to be a coal bin has been provided. Brookfield Road remains un-named on this map.
![]() Lustleigh Station c.1905
Copyright photo from John Alsop collection ![]() Lustleigh village in 1907, the station can be seen far right
![]() In 1931 the station was briefly renamed Baskerville for the film Hound of the Baskervilles.
![]() Lustleigh Station c.1910. The strip of land to the left of the line was purchased by the GWR for a possible loop line; it became the station garden.
Copyright photo from Paul Laming collection ![]() Lustleigh Station in June 1921. The strip of land to the left of the line was purchased by the GWR for a possible loop line; it became the station garden.
Copyright photo from John Alsop collection ![]() The Murray-Rust family on a camping coach holiday at Lustleigfh station in April 1957. The camping coach is seen on the right in the dock.
Photo by David Murray-Rust ![]() The Murray-Rust children stand on the platform as the brnch passenger train 4179 is a Collett 2-6-2T built at Swindon in 1949. and at this time allocated to Newton Abbot shed. She was withdrawn on 28 February 1965 from Tyseley shed after only 16 years and scrapped at Cohens in Kingsbury in October that year.
![]() General view of Lustleigh station in April 1957. The station garden has been prepared
for spring planting. A camping coach is seen in the dock. Photo by David Murray-Rust
![]() Lustleigh Station in the 1950's. Note the goods shed and loading gauge. The strip of land to the left of the line was purchased by the GWR for a possible loop line; it became the station garden.
Photo by Richard Gee ![]() The branch passenger train arrives at Lustleigh statiion in April 1957 hauled by No 1427, a Collett CB 0-4-2T built at Swindon Works in 1933. She was allocated to Newton Abbot shed in 1948 and withdrawn from Gloucester Horton Road in Juned 1960 and cut up at Swindon Works in September that year.
Photo by Alan Murray-Rust
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