Southern Railway signs return to Okehampton station

REPLICA Southern Railway signs will once again adorn reopened Okehampton station thanks to a £15,700 grant from the Railway Heritage Trust. The aim is to return the station, which reopened to regular passenger services last November, to its 1959 appearance as far as possible. The signage then had been in place since the 1930s.

Richard Burningham, of the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership, said: “GWR has funded all the modern signs you need with an operational station but these have been carefully melded with the heritage signs.

“This is greatly appreciated by the association; we have the best of both.”

The signs will be in place in early summer when the cafe, ticket office, Dartmoor Information Centre, heritage waiting room, and association shop will open.