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The station was originally known as just "Newton" but this was changed to "Newton Abbot" on 1 March 1877. [ 6 ] The last broad gauge train ran on 20 May 1892, after which all the lines in the area were converted to 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm ) standard gauge over the space of a weekend.
Leaving Newton Abbot station, the line is near level until Aller Junction, where the line to Torbay diverges to the left. The climb proper begins at Stoneycombe, where there was a signal box and quarry siding, and continues through Dainton tunnel to Dainton signal box, a distance of 2 miles and 17 chains (3.56 km).
The line is double track throughout except for a long single-lead junction at Newton Abbot where trains are turned off the main line onto the Paignton branch. Loops at Dawlish Warren allow slower trains to be overtaken, as does the flexible layout at Newton Abbot where all three platforms can access the Paignton branch. At Exeter St Davids ...
Lustleigh Station in 1912. In 1861 the Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway Company was formed at the Globe Hotel in Newton Abbot, and in 1862 the bill for making the railway was given royal assent as the Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. cxxviii). Work on the line commenced in 1863, and the major ...
Totnes railway station was built by the South Devon Railway Company and opened on 20 July 1847 when trains started to run on the line from Newton, as Newton Abbot was known at the time. [ 2 ] [ page needed ] It was a terminus until 5 May 1848 when trains started to run through to Plymouth , initially using a temporary terminus at Laira .
The American gauges converged, as the advantages of equipment interchange became increasingly apparent. Notably, all the 5 ft (1,524 mm) broad gauge track in the South was converted to "almost standard" gauge 4 ft 9 in (1,448 mm) over the course of two days beginning on 31 May 1886. [21] See Track gauge in the United States.
Atmospheric trains only ran from 13 September 1847 until 9 September 1848, and the line was extended to Newton Abbot on 31 December 1846. [1] The South Devon Railway was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway (GWR) on 1 February 1876, and the gauge converted to the 4’ 8.5” (1435mm) standard gauge after 20 May 1892.
Since the line re-opened as a heritage railway, a new Totnes (Riverside) railway station has been opened to avoid the need for trains to run into the Network Rail station. A footbridge over the river links the two stations. Staverton station was named Staverton Bridge when it reopened in April 1969, but the suffix "fell into disuse" in the 1980s.