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    Transport Secretary reopens Okehampton station to daily train services 49 years on

    Dec 21, 2021 3 minutes
    By Robin Jones

    ALMOST half a century after it closed to passengers, Okehampton station reopened to daily public services on November 20 as the first of the Government’s Restoring Your Railway schemes to be completed.

    The refurbishment and reopening of the branch to the town has taken just nine months, and the scheme has been delivered at £10 million under budget.

    Following the severance of the Southern Railway’s Exeter to Plymouth main line, the easternmost section of the route survived to

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