Editing Great Torrington (section)

===Railway===
{{main article|Torrington railway station}}
[[File:Torringtonstation.jpg|thumb|right|Torrington station on 15 June 1969 looking towards Bideford]]
The branch line from [[Barnstaple railway station|Barnstaple]] to [[Bideford railway station|Bideford]] was extended to Great Torrington in July 1872 by the [[London and South Western Railway]], which built a railway station and [[motive power depot|locomotive depot]] in the town. The station was always named 'Torrington', not 'Great Torrington'.

The locomotive depot was closed in 1959 and the line was closed to passenger traffic as part of the [[Beeching Axe]]. It was closed to goods traffic in 1984. At the site of the old station there is still in 2015 a pub named ''The Puffing Billy''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.devon.gov.uk/torrington_to_meeth |title=Torrington to Meeth |access-date=2015-03-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402095548/http://www.devon.gov.uk/torrington_to_meeth |archive-date=2 April 2015 }}</ref> A few small sections of track remain, but most has been removed and replaced with a combined foot and cycle path as part of the [[Tarka Trail]]. The Tarka Trail continues to Bideford, Barnstaple and on to Braunton in one direction, and to Meeth in the other, making {{convert|32|mi|km}} of traffic free trail.
[[File:Torringtonviaduct.jpg|thumb|right|The narrow gauge wooden viaduct over the Torridge in 1905]]
[[File:Great torrington map1937.jpg|thumb|right|Great Torrington in 1937]]