EFFORTS to expand the restored section of the Lynton &Barnstaple Railway at Woody Bay are now being focussed on a shorter extension to a location just north of Parracombe.
It follows the expiry of Lynton &Barnstaple Railway Trust’s (L&BRT) planning permission to rebuild the line between its present Killington Lane terminus and Blackmoor (RM Headline News, April 2023).
Now a planning application to Exmoor National Park Authority is being prepared which L&BRT hopes will be submitted later this year. If approved, this would enable construction of a half-mile extension to its current Woody Bay to Killington Lane running line onwards to a terminus at Cricket Field Lane on the edge of Parracombe. Meanwhile, a working party on January 20/21 cleared a significant volume of overgrown trees and vegetation from the trackbed boundaries along this section and undertook spot fencing repairs.