there are plans to further increase the cycle network by reopening the section east towards meldon junction. in 2005 devon county council agreed in principle to the creation of a bridleway on an intact disused section of the bude branch from thorndon cross (near the former meldon junction) and halwill, a distance of approximately 7 miles (13 kilometres). the proposal has made slow progress in the face of objections from local residents and the prohibitive prices demanded for the sale of their land by trackbed owners. in 2007 the council again reiterated its intention to convert the disused railway to public amenity, reaffirming its intention to create cycleways on the sections from bude to halwill and torrington to halwill.