The Lynton and Barnstaple has a friend in high places - the leader of Devon County Council expressed his support for the line when he officially opened the extension to Killington Lane on 12 May 2007.
He supports the railway's medium term aim of reopening from Wistlandpound to Lynton. The new station at Lynton is planned to be close to the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway, offering easy interchange and bringing modern transport back to this magnificent part of north Devon.
The Lynton and Barnstaple, particularly when it returns to Barnstaple (Pilton), will become the major tourist attraction on Exmoor as well as an important transport link. In time no doubt the line will be extended even further, across the Taw back to Barnstaple Junction on the network or to Barnstaple Town (even if on a diversion) when the Ilfracombe line is reinstated. And imagine an extension of the line from Lynmouth or Lynton along the savage North Devon coast to Minehead! That would be a journey of world class standard ...
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