Cove Halt railway station
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Cove Halt was a small railway station on the Exe Valley Railway line, at the village of Cove
Cove, Devon
Cove is a small village and civil parish in the county of Devon, England. It is situated 4 miles north of Tiverton and 2 miles from Bampton in the Exe Valley some 450 feet above sea level. Cove was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1886. The church of St...

, which is north of Tiverton in Devon
Devon
Devon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...

, South West England. The station opened in 1924, though had been a siding at the location since the line opened in 1884 (as the Tiverton and North Devon Railway).

Cove Halt was a single platform with a small Great Western Railway
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...

-style pagoda shelter on the single-track line. It closed when services were withdrawn on the Exe Valley line in 1963. A level crossing
Level crossing
A level crossing occurs where a railway line is intersected by a road or path onone level, without recourse to a bridge or tunnel. It is a type of at-grade intersection. The term also applies when a light rail line with separate right-of-way or reserved track crosses a road in the same fashion...

keeper's cottage and a small signal cabin remain at the site.
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