150263 Okehampton 2nd August 2025
What an attractive station Okehampton is and what a triumph the re-instated passenger service in 2021 has been. Okehampton was removed from the passenger network in 1972 and now the new service has been a major success. This is 150263 on the 15.25 to Exeter Central. I'd arrived on a bus 118 which left Tavistock at 14.20 and arrived here at 15.16 allowing me nine minutes to take some quick photos before jumping on the train. I had travelled from Exeter to Okehampton in the 1990s when services ran on Sundays as part of the Dartmoor Ranger ticket. Sadly I never did the line from here to Coleford Junction during the time of the preserved Dartmoor Railway when various locos did it including 45060.
150263 Okehampton 2nd August 2025
What an attractive station Okehampton is and what a triumph the re-instated passenger service in 2021 has been. Okehampton was removed from the passenger network in 1972 and now the new service has been a major success. This is 150263 on the 15.25 to Exeter Central. I'd arrived on a bus 118 which left Tavistock at 14.20 and arrived here at 15.16 allowing me nine minutes to take some quick photos before jumping on the train. I had travelled from Exeter to Okehampton in the 1990s when services ran on Sundays as part of the Dartmoor Ranger ticket. Sadly I never did the line from here to Coleford Junction during the time of the preserved Dartmoor Railway when various locos did it including 45060.