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The direct line from Reading to Taunton was created from three earlier routes. These had been created by companies that had been absorbed into the GWR: The Berks and Hants Railway's route between Reading and Pewsey, which was part of a route that was extended west to Devizes and Trowbridge. The line was opened as a branch to Hungerford in 1847 ...
The West of England line (also known as the West of England Main Line) is a British railway line from Basingstoke, Hampshire, to Exeter St Davids in Devon, England.. Passenger services run between London Waterloo station and Exeter; the line intersects with the Wessex Main Line at
Tiverton Parkway railway station is on the Bristol to Exeter line in Devon, England.Despite being named after the town of Tiverton, it is actually located a short distance from the village of Sampford Peverell, 6 miles (9.7 km) to the east of Tiverton, and close to the junction of the M5 motorway with the A361 North Devon link road.
Exeter St Davids railway station is the principal and largest railway station in Exeter, also the second-busiest station in Devon.. It is 193 miles 72 chains (193.90 mi; 312.1 km) from the zero point at London Paddington, [1] from where trains travel through Exeter to Plymouth and Penzance.
After the LSWR reached Exeter, an arbitration award required the Bristol & Exeter to lay mixed gauge track from Exeter St Davids to Cowley Bridge Junction: the point of divergence of the North Devon lines from the B&ER main line. This permitted the LSWR to run standard gauge trains to Crediton from 1862, and throughout to Fremington from 1863.
The North-East/South-West route (sometimes simply The Cross-Country Route) is the major British rail route running from South West England or Cardiff via Bristol, Birmingham, Derby and Sheffield to North-East England and Scotland. It includes some of the longest inter-city rail journeys in the UK, e.g. Penzance to Aberdeen.
Third rail, 750 V DC: Reading–Basingstoke line: 1848: ... Exeter to Barnstaple: ... Current maps are on the National Rail Enquiries - Maps of the UK National Rail ...
The train ran the wrong way down the line and was hit head-on by a First Great Western HST service from Cheltenham Spa to Paddington at a closing speed of approximately 130 mph (210 km/h). 31 people died, including both drivers, with more than 520 people injured. Thames Trains was fined £2 million for violations of health and safety law. [71]