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ASHWATER TO TOWER HILL since closure
| The Ashwater station buildings remain extant, but look as if
they could do with a little TLC! Ashwater station is in the small hamlet of
Ashmill, with the larger village that gave the station its name being on the
other side of the valley and a couple of hundred feet above the railway line
that followed the valley floor! |
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Looking north from Ashwater station the trackbed can clearly be
seen, but as this photograph shows it is a very wet and soggy place today - a
far cry from the days when the 'Atlantic Coast Express' passed this
way! |
| A minor road crossed the railway on an overbridge a short
distance from the hamlet of Virginstow. This view of the trackbed, taken
looking north from that bridge, is not much different from that at Ashwater,
though a little less soggy. |
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The site of what was once Tower Hill station. The building was
demolished with no sign of it remaining today, although the railway-built
cottages behind the original goods yard are still there and, indeed, have been
extended at one end. The buildings on the far right of the photograph are
standing where the two military sidings were constructed in 1943. This view is
taken from the overbridge that was at the north end of the station, looking
south. |
| Looking northwards from the other side of the same bridge the
trackbed can be seen to be very wet and, in the area nearest the station, very
overgrown. |
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