FOLLOWING expiry of Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Trust’s (L&BRT) planning permission to rebuild the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway between its present Killington Lane terminus and Blackmoor (RM Headline News, April), the focus rapidly switched to Blackmoor itself.
L&B Blackmoor Company plc, a subsidiary of L&BRT, has announced its purchase of the Old Station House Inn pub, restaurant, adjoining house and some adjacent land was scheduled for completion on April 17.
The station at Blackmoor was built in 1897 for opening of the L&B and sold in October 1938 after the railway closed. Post-Second World War it opened as a cafe, part of the Up platform being enclosed by a conservatory in the 1950s. Later, the building was extended across the trackbed.
The L&B Blackmoor company was formed in 2015 with the objective of continuing the existing pub and restaurant business while securing land to provide station facilities and rebuilding of the railway lower down the slope north of the original station (RM July and December 2015).
Crucially, L&BRT’s
