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Former GWR ‘Moguls’ regularly worked along ‘foreign’ tracks to Ilfracombe, both on stopping services from Taunton and summer Saturday long-distance trains. Sometimes they could be seen double-headed with SR motive power, one of the few routes where this occurred. In this picture No.6345 is seen pulling in to Wrafton, between Barnstaple and Braunton, with an unidentified up working on a sunny day in August 1964. Note the camping coaches in the goods yard on the left of the shot. Construction of the 15 miles-long line to the resort of Ilfracombe was proposed by the Barnstaple & Ilfracombe Railway, a subsidiary of the LSWR, and received the Royal Assent on 4th July 1870. Due to a severe economic depression at the time and the substantial earthworks needed, construction was slow and opening was delayed until 20th July 1874. The line was originally single but doubled in stages, except for the bridge over the river Taw at Barnstaple, between 1889–91. Alan Reeve