Tarka Line

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Tarka Line
miles
Riviera Line to Paignton and GWML to Penzance
SWT to London and Avocet Line to Exmouth
0.00 Exeter St Davids
Riverside Yard
Cowley Bridge Junction GWML to London
River Exe
4.25 Newton St Cyres (limited service)
6.75 Crediton (passing loop)
10.50 Yeoford (request stop)
Coleford Junction Dartmoor Railway to Okehampton
13.50 Copplestone (request stop)
15.00 Morchard Road (limited service)
17.50 Lapford (limited service)
21.25 Eggesford (passing loop)
25.25 Kings Nympton (limited service)
28.25 Portsmouth Arms (limited service)
River Taw
32.25 Umberleigh
River Taw
34.75 Chapelton (limited service)
Langham Lake
River Taw
Pill Bridge
Closed connection to GWR Barnstaple (Victoria Road)
39.00 Barnstaple
Closed branch to Ilfracombe
Closed branch to Bideford

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The Tarka Line (named after the animal hero in Henry Williamson's book Tarka the Otter) is a railway line from Exeter to Barnstaple in Devon, England. The line follows the River Yeo and the River Taw for some of its route. At Coleford Junction there is a branch to Okehampton, which has recently reopened to passenger trains as the Dartmoor Railway.

The towns and villages served by the line are listed below:

Beyond Barnstaple, the railway used to continue to Ilfracombe or Instow and Bideford. Part of the latter route is preserved as the Bideford & Instow Railway, while sections of both routes have been reopened as cycleways on the Tarka Trail.

Passenger services on the line are operated by First Great Western using Class 150 or Class 153 diesel multiple units. During the summer months a Sunday-only service operates (on behalf of Devon County Council) between Exeter Central and Okehampton.


 v • d • e  Railway lines in South-West England and the "Great Western" zone :
Main lines:  Cross-Country Route • Great Western Main Line
 Bristol-Taunton line • Cherwell Valley Line • Cornish Main Line • Gloucester-Newport Line • Exeter-Paignton "Riviera" Line • Reading-Plymouth line • South Wales Main Line • Wessex Main Line • West of England Main Line
Commuter lines:  Severn Beach Line   Slough-Windsor & Eton Line
Rural lines:  Exeter-Barnstaple "Tarka" Line • Exeter-Exmouth "Avocet" Line • Golden Valley Line • Heart of Wessex Line • Henley Branch Line • Looe Valley Line • Marlow Branch Line • Par-Newquay "Atlantic Coast" Line • St Ives Bay Line • Tamar Valley Line • Truro-Falmouth "Maritime" Line 
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