page_title: Culm Valley Light Railway
hierarchical_section_title: Culm Valley Light Railway
caption_attribution_description: English: Hemyock Station.
context_page_description: The Culm Valley Light Railway was a standard gauge branch railway that operated in the English county of Devon. It ran for just under 7 ¹⁄₂ miles from Tiverton Junction station on the Bristol to Exeter line, through the Culm valley to Hemyock.
  It was intended as a very low-cost scheme, but by the time it opened in 1876 had cost more than twice the originally anticipated budget and taken five times the expected time to complete. It was operated from the start by the Great Western Railway, who purchased the line outright in 1880. It was loss-making and underused until United Dairies built a creamery and milk products factory at Hemyock; their output became the dominant traffic.
  The line closed to passengers in 1963 but served the milk depot at Hemyock until 1975.
context_section_description: The Culm Valley Light Railway was a standard gauge branch railway that operated in the English county of Devon. It ran for just under 7 ¹⁄₂ miles (12.1 km) from Tiverton Junction station on the Bristol to Exeter line, through the Culm valley to Hemyock.
  It was intended as a very low-cost scheme, but by the time it opened in 1876 had cost more than twice the originally anticipated budget and taken five times the expected time to complete. It was operated from the start by the Great Western Railway, who purchased the line outright in 1880. It was loss-making and underused until United Dairies built a creamery and milk products factory at Hemyock; their output became the dominant traffic.
  The line closed to passengers in 1963 but served the milk depot at Hemyock until 1975.
caption: Hemyock railway station
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