Barnstaple Branch
Trains on the Exeter to Barnstaple branch were regularly locomotive-hauled until 1987. This picture, taken on 1st August
1987, shows 33 108 about to depart from Barnstaple station with a mid-afternoon train for Exeter.
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Eggesford is a station with a passing loop and is situated roughly halfway on the thirty-eight mile single track branch.
In this picture, 33 108 with an Exeter train, is seen passing a Barnstaple-bound class 118 DMU on 1st August 1987.
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This is Lapford station, pictured on 1st August 1987.
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On 5 may 1990, I drove down to photograph a class 50 hauled railtour which was due to visit the Barnstaple branch. Because
of problems that day, the railtour only visited the nearby Meldon branch. At the time, I remember being a little disappointed.
However I was more than pleased with the pictures of the DMU service that I mangaged to photograph that day, such as this picture
of a class 108 unit crossing the River Taw, just north of Kings Nympton.
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A class 108 DMU seen arriving at Umberleigh station on 6 September 1991.
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This is another picture taken on 6 September 1991. A class 108 unit is seen just north of Kings Nympton.
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