![]() Station Name: NEWTON POPPLEFORD[Source:
Nick Catford]
![]() Newton Poppleford station seen from Station Road bridge in early 20th century. Initially, goods services were basic with a single siding and no dock or goods shed. Sacks are seen being loaded directly onto a truck from a wagon in the siding.
![]() ![]() 1905 1:2,500 OS map shows the layout of the station as built. There is one siding parallel with the running line with a head shunt at the north end. There are only two small buildings in the yard, one is a platelayers; hut (left) and the other, alongside the road is probably a goods office.
![]() 1932 1:2,500 OS map shows nothing has changed since 1905.
![]() 1957 1:2,500 OS map shows the siding has been extended under the road bridge, this was often used for a camping coach, The goods office has been demolished and a grain store has been built. Photographic evidence shows this was two-bay buildings with a wooden loading dock. There
has been a small amount of residential development close to the station. ![]() Newton Poppleford station looking north from Station Road bridge in March 1955. Two wagons are seen alongside the grain store loading dock,
Photo from John Mann collection ![]() ![]() Newton Poppleford station c1950s.
Photo from John Mann collection ![]() Newton Poppleford station looking south c1950s.
Photo from John Mann collection ![]() A southbound passenger train waits at Newton Poppleford station in June 1959.
Photo from John Mann collection ![]() A Tipton St. Johns train pulls into Newton Poppleford station in August 1963. The grain store with its timber loading dock is seen on the left.
Photo
by Peter Gray
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Poppleford station looking south in June 1965. The goods yard closed on 27 January 1964 and the siding has been recently lifted.
Copyright photo by John Alsop ![]() Newton
Poppleford station looking north in February 1967, a few weeks before the station closed.
Photo by Bernard Mills ![]() Newton
Poppleford station in 1968, a year after closure
Photo by Paul Tebbett ![]() Newton
Poppleford station looking south in August 1969. Note the strengthening under the bridge. The two-bay grain warehouse standing on staddle stones is seen on the right
Photo by Nick Catford ![]()
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