Barnstaple railway station is poised for a fresh burst of colour and character, as a £2,500 grant from Great Western Railway (GWR) helps fund a series of improvements including new planters, a unique ...

The Lynton-Barnstaple railway line ran across it from 1896 until it closed in 1935, it added. National Highways said it was designed by engineer F W Chanter, more than 250,000 bricks were used in ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Conservative campaign veteran Lynton Crosby says the Coalition has not done enough to present a vision of a better future or ...

Residents of North Devon and West Somerset are being invited to enjoy a discounted journey on the historic Lynton & Barnstaple Railway as part of a special ‘Postcode Week’ offer. The railway, which ...

When it happened, the late-January release of around 2.2 billion gallons from California reservoirs already seemed strange, ill-advised and abrupt. But a new report from the Washington Post ...

To accommodate growth in Pacific Palisades, they built a reservoir in Santa Ynez Canyon, as well as a pumping station “to increase fire protection,” as the L.A. Department of Water and Power ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The intelligence arm of Sir Lynton Crosby’s CT Group is to be named as the consultancy that provided an ...

Find leisure and lifestyle news from Barnstaple ... Hall home in Bishop’s Tawton, Wistlandpound Reservoir, and the Lynmouth and Lynton Cliff Railway. ABOVE: Barn dance in Lee Memorial Hall ...

The excavated earth from the reservoir was used to build the railway embankment. Eventually, the railway decided that the Freight House was redundant and it fell into disrepair. It was later ...

Whereas these would originally involve railways winding their way up and over mountains, as technology has advanced, tunnelling has become more viable, to the point where the longest railway tunnels ...

Louise Butcher, who is known as the 'Topless Runner', will be opening the 2024 season at the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway at ... cancer and raises money for Barnstaple's Fern Centre through ...