Barnstaple to Ilfracombe Railway website slide show

Here’s a slideshow preview of my tribute to the Barnstaple to Ilfracombe railway line. The main website can be found here:

www.ilfracombe-railway.co.nf

“Welcome to my small tribute to the forgotten Ilfracombe Line. Over the next 23 pages we’ll take a journey over the length of the old track bed from Barnstaple Junction to Ilfracombe station – a distance of about 15 miles. You’ll see photos and maps comparing how things were and how they look today, along with some (hopefully) interesting facts about the line itself. Ok, so why have I done this? I’m too young to have ever travelled on this line, so I’ve never even actually seen it, and I’m not even from Devon – I’m a Yorkshire man! Well, I’ve holidayed in Woolacombe for nearly 40 years and was always fascinated by the old railway station, so I often wondered about the line to Barnstaple and its history. As I slowly found out more, I decided I wanted to document what I’d found and compare the line to how things look today. It’s been a long project (on and off), which I’ve done in my spare time and I’ve had to do a lot of cross referencing of photographs and maps. Some of my findings might look trivial when they are presented, but not that easy when you’re sat 300 mile away in front of Google Maps, trying to work out where a non-descriptive photograph was taken, so please forgive any inaccuracies – I know there’s just a couple”
Anyway I hope you enjoy a ramble along the old track bed. Please feel free to contact me at: [email protected] with any comments or suggestions. The site is dedicated to all who planned, built and worked the track.