Built as cheaply as possible, and partly following the alignment of the former tramway, the railway had continuous sharp curves and
ruling gradients in the range of 1 in 45 to 1 in 50 (2.22
% to 2%) The stations on the line were: • Torrington (L&SWR station) •
Watergate Halt (opened 1926) •
Yarde Halt (opened 1926) •
Dunsbear Halt •
(Marland Clay Co Siding) •
Petrockstow •
(Meeth Clay Co Siding) •
Meeth Halt •
Hatherleigh •
Hole (for Black Torrington) •
Halwill Junction The line was single throughout, worked by Electric Train Tablet (using Tyer's No 6 instruments), and with a maximum speed of from Torrington to Dunsbear Halt, and from there to Halwill. The 1964/65 working timetable shows two throughout trains each way daily, taking about 80 minutes by
diesel multiple unit for the journey. There were three freight trains Mondays to Fridays serving the clay sidings from the Torrington end. There were no trains on Sundays. ==See also==