Tarka Valley Railway
In July 2008, a railway preservation society called the Tarka Valley Railway was formed to create a heritage railway. The society hope to lay a short section of track adjacent to the platforms, and displaying some rolling stock.
Longer term objectives see the development of tourist railway, extending as far as Watergate Halt.
Read more about this topic: Torrington Railway Station
Famous quotes containing the words valley and/or railway:
“To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)