Lympstone, Devon - train for Exmouth 1962 - repro postcard c.1990s

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• Picture / Image:  Engine no. 82023 with train for Exmouth arriving at Lympstone on 28 Aug 1962
• Publisher: Joanes Publications, South Molton - c.1990s
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Lympstone is a village and civil parish in East Devon in the English county of Devon. It has a population of 1,754.^[1]There is a harbour on the estuary of the River Exe, lying at the outlet of Wotton Brook between cliffs of red breccia.^[2]The promontory to the north of the harbour is topped by a flat pasture, Cliff Field, that is managed by the National Trustand used for football matches and other local events.

Lympstone has rail services on the Avocet Line to Exmouth and Exeter from Lympstone Village railway station.

It is known locally for Peter's Tower, an Italianate riverfront brick clock tower built around 1885 by W.H. Peters as a memorial to his wife,^[3] and for its tradition of residents drying washing on the foreshore.^[4] The riverside houses back directly on to the shore, with no continuous seawall, and the passageways between them to the beach are equipped with metal flood gates that are closed by residents when they are warned of high tides by a local alert network.^[5]

Near the village is the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines (CTCRM), the principal military training centre for the Royal Marines. The training centre has its own dedicated railway halt, Lympstone Commando (not in public use), on the Exeter–Exmouth branch line.

Ralph Lane, equerry to Queen Elizabeth I, was born in Lympstone. He was a soldier who went with Sir Walter Raleighon his second expedition to the New World in 1585. He founded a colony on Roanoke Island amidst great hardship and deprivation. He was later present at the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Singer and lead guitarist of The Kinks, Dave Davies, lived in Lympstone in the 1990s. Former Tottenham Hotspurs footballer Steve Perryman currently resides in Lympstone.

Lympstone Village railway station serves the village of Lympstone in Devon, England.

Lympstone station was opened with the railway on 1 May 1861. It was renamed Lympstone Village in the 1990s to avoid confusion with the new Lympstone Commando railway station that had opened on 3 May 1976.^[1]

Following the privatisation of British Rail it was operated by Wales & West, latterly Wessex Trains, until 31 March 2006 when the franchise was taken over by First Great Western.