<b>A snowy station yard, South Brent</b><br>South Brent was once a busy junction station on the South Devon Railway mainline to Plymouth. It was closed in 1963 but <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brent_3_railway_station_1892528_ff782f95.jpg" title="File:Brent 3 railway station 1892528 ff782f95.jpg">SX6960 : Brent Station, with train provides a snapshot of it in 1958</a>.
<p>Some of the infrastructure remains, the signal box is on what remains of the island platform, and the goods shed is now a busy dental surgery, see <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Primrose_Junction_Dental_Surgery,_South_Brent_(geograph_2228451).jpg" title="File:Primrose Junction Dental Surgery, South Brent (geograph 2228451).jpg">SX6960 : Primrose Junction Dental Surgery, South Brent</a>. The rest of the yard is used for parking and has a small factory in one part.
Snow is not new here; in March 1891 a drama occurred when the GWR's premier daily express from Paddington to Plymouth, nicknamed "The Zulu", was stranded here for 4 days in what was called The Great Blizzard. Greg Wall's Book of South Brent published by Halsgrove in 2005, has an interesting account from newspaper reports of the time.
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See <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Brent_station,_rather_where_it_used_to_be_!_(geograph_2943638).jpg" title="File:South Brent station, rather where it used to be ! (geograph 2943638).jpg">SX6960 : South Brent station, rather where it used to be !</a> for the same scene.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/26411">Adrian Platt</a>
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