always a slightly odd station in the sense that it served no particular large urban conurbation and acted largely as a useful interchange between three different lines, halwill was at its busiest in the period up to the second world war when eight sidings were laid to deal with the military traffic in the lead-up to d-day. it also relied, as did the lines which it served, to a large extent on summer holiday traffic and when this began to dry-up in the late 1950s and early 1960s with the increased use of the motorcar, it became unprofitable and a candidate for closure in the beeching report. first proposed for closure in april 1964, halwill saw its connecting lines close one by one over the next few years - the line north to torrington closed to passengers on 1 march 1965 and those to bude and padstow on 3 october 1966, heralding the end for the formerly important railway junction. the line north did, however, remain open between torrington and barnstaple for freight until 1982.