Mounting local opposition resulted in a meeting at Barnstaple, where the
crowd was joined by very vocal protestors from the other end of the line at Lynton.
The meeting seemed to be going well for the railway supporters until the chairman
politely inquired how man-y peopte from Lynton had traveled to Barnstaple by train.
Out of the embarrassed silence that followed emerged the painful truth that, all of
those who had come from Lynton to fight for the railway had come by highway. The
fast of the Lynton and Barnstapte branch line was sealed,.