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It's quite strange when you see an intact platform like this one.It looks so untouched almost newly made really,but you know that it hasn't been used for over half a century.Maybe it's just waiting for a time when it is used again.The platform is over grown with nettles,brambles and wild roses,but the two lamp posts are still there and one even has the hook that the lamp was hung from.

Looking down the line both north and south,it looks as though little has changed,but the track bed is now used by farmers as a sort of road to link their fields together.After walking up and down the platform many times and imagining what it would have been like in the old days at this remote stop by the Exe,we moved on to have a look at some other things of interest nearby.

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+2 #3 Nancherrow 2015-12-05 15:30
Re-visited this site with friends yesterday and they solved the cogged posts mystery. The ratchetted cogs were for tensioning the wires on the fence. The concrete posts held 5 wires and there are 5 cogs on the metal contraption. :-)
+2 #2 Nancherrow 2015-10-21 12:31
The link to the picture didn't appear. Try this http://www.trenear-harvey.co.uk/pages/gatepost.html
+2 #1 Nancherrow 2015-10-21 12:30
Interesting article - thank you. With regard to your picture of the unusual gatepost I thought you might be interested to see this similar one I saw near Sheepstor Village. Burrator Halt is only half a mile away so maybe they have a railway connection.

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