What it Looks Like Today: Morebath Junction Halt
After the usual research,using mainly Google Earth,I set out with my equally Exe Valley obssessed good lady Christine,to see if we could find anything of Morebath Junction Halt.We drove to Morebath and turned down the road towards the church,then took the left fork in the road.A short drive later there is a footpath on the left by Ashtown Farm.I just parked there,but there's not much room,so it's probably better to park at the carpark near the church and then walk down.You then walk down the path,keeping to the left.
It seemed a bit strange walking down a farm track to get to a train station and as I walked, I remembered what I had read about children and shoppers having to trudge through the wet and the mud to get to the platform before changing into their "town" shoes.They would then leave their muddy boots in the small shelter to change back in to when they returned,before taking the wet and muddy walk back home.
We went round a corner and the line was there in front of us on the brow of the path as in one of my pictures.It is still really clear to see where the line went in both directions,although it no longer looks like the windswept place I have seen in so many pictures.
The platform is to the east of the path and the way is blocked by an old,rusted gate.The platform is on private land,so you need to get permission to visit it.
We set off towards the station past the gate,unsure whether there was anything to find or not.We needn't of worried,as after a short walk and to our amazement,we soon saw that the entire platform was still there!
When we had set out earlier we had been unsure whether we would find anything,but here we were actually walking along a platform of the long lost railway.
Not only is the platform still there,but even the old concrete sign posts.
Click on the buttons to switch between how it used to look and how it looks like today.Note the concrete sign posts.
Anyway,me and Christine set off for home with a brief detour to the chippy in Bampton,amazed by our experience at Morebath Junction Halt.
- looking west down the platform
- looking east down the line before the platform
- the concrete sign posts are still there
- looking east down the line
- dearest Christine standing on the platform
- looking west to the right of the footpath
- footpath to the track on the brow
- looking east to the left of the footpath
- looking west down the line to the right of the footpath
- me standing on the line by the platform
- the overgrown platform looking east
- looking east down the platform
- the end of the platform looking east
- the platform
- looking east down the platform,note the sign posts
- looking east down the line
- the platform
- standing on the platform
- standing on the platform looking east
- you can still see where the tracks were
1889 map 
1946 map
