page_title: Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Trust
section_title: Inspiration
hierarchical_section_title: Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Trust / History / Inspiration
caption_attribution_description: English: The hand-written postcard left attached to a wreath of bronze crysanthemums at Barnstaple Town station the day after the Lynton &amp; Barnstaple Railway closed to traffic on 29 September 1935. (see Image:L&amp;bperchance2.jpg for other side) Image Courtesy L&amp;BR archive
context_page_description: The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Trust is an educational charity supporting the rebuilding and operation of the railway by the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Company, in North Devon, England.
context_section_description: On 30 September 1935, the day after the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway closed, Barnstaple Town stationmaster Harold Ford and Porter Guard Walkey laid a wreath of bronze crysanthemums on the Barnstaple Station stop block.
  The wreath bore a black-edged postcard, hand-written on both sides, sent by Paymaster Captain Thomas Alfred Woolf, R.N. (Retd.), of the White House Woody Bay. The Captain died on 12 May 1937, aged 55 and is buried in Martinhoe Churchyard not far from Woody Bay.
caption: TO BARNSTAPLE
  & LYNTON RAILWAY
  WITH REGRET &
   SORROW
  FROM A CONSTANT
   USER & ADMIRER
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