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RAILWAYS IN OLD DEVONPORT  |  CALLINGTON BRANCH
BRANCH LINE, BERE ALSTON STATION TO CALLINGTON STATION

LUCKETT STATION (STOKE CLIMSLAND STATION)

Originally opened by the East Cornwall Mineral Railway as Monks Corner Depot, it was renamed Stoke Climsland Station when the Bere Alston and Calstock Railway took over on March 2nd 1908.  The Station Master lived in the adjacent Station House.

Stoke Climsland Station was renamed Luckett Station on and as from November 1st 1909.  It boasted a carriage shed until March 31st 1923, when it was removed.

A loop siding giving access to a loading dock was provided on the Up side of the track.  There was a small wooden Ground Frame at the Callington end of the Station, by the road overbridge.

In 1914,under the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway Company, the Station Master at Luckett Station was 18-years-old Mr Leonard Maker. 

According to the "The Official Hand Book of Stations, etc., 1929" Luckett Station dealt with goods and passenger and parcels traffic, live stock and horse boxes and prize cattle vans.  It was not equipped with a crane.  It was listed as responsible for Clitter's Siding, Greenhill Siding, Hingston Down Siding, and Whiterocks Siding.  This was still the case when the 1956 edition of the Hand Book was published.

From Monday May 5th 1941 until further notice passenger trains departed from Luckett Station for Bere Alston Station the following times: 7.24am; 9.53am Third Class only; 1.03pm; 4.29pm Third Class only; 6.26pm; with an extra departure on Saturdays only at 9.11pm.  The journey to Bere Alston Station took thirty-seven minutes (although the 6.20pm train managed it in 35 minutes), with stops at Latchley Halt, Chilsworthy Halt, Gunnislake Station and Calstock Station.  Two of the trains, as indicated above, were Third Class only; the others conveyed First Class passengers as well.  On Sundays trains departed from Callington Station for Bere Alston Station at 8.29am; 11.36am; 6.36pm; and 9.16pm.  Passenger trains left Luckett Station for Callington Station at the following times: 8.57am Third Class only; 11.27am; 1.34pm Saturdays only; 3.57pm Third Class only; 5.57pm; 7.45pm; with an extra service at 10.42pm on Saturdays only.  The journey took seven minutes.  On Sundays passenger trains departed from Luckett Station for Callington Station at 10.01am; 12.57pm; 7.55pm; 10.55pm.  

Mr A E Lazenbury, Station Master at Callington Station, was also responsible for Luckett Station in June 1948.

On Weekdays and Sundays, 'where train service permits', commencing on May 1st 1953, the following cheap day return tickets, first and third class, were available from Luckett Station to: Callington, 9 pence (d) 1st, 6 pence (d) 3rd; Devonport King's Road, 6 shillings (s) 1st, 4s 3rd; Plymouth Friary Station, 7s 6d 1st, 5s 3rd; Plymouth North Road Station, 6s 6d 1st, 4s 3d 3rd; and Tavistock North, 5s 3d 1st, 3s 6d, 3rd.

The Station was closed to goods traffic on or as from September 10th 1962 and the loop siding and Ground Frame were removed on September 23rd 1962.

Surprisingly the Station was staffed until March 7th 1966.

Luckett Station was closed to passenger traffic on or as from November 7th 1966.