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The Dartmouth and Torbay Railway Company was incorporated by an act of Parliament, the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. ciii), of 27 July to build from the SDR Torquay station to a point between the Higher Ferry and Waterhead Creek at Kingswear, [2] and power to establish a ferry from Kingswear to Dartmouth, and to take ...
The Riviera Line is the railway between the city of Exeter, towns Dawlish and Teignmouth, and the English Riviera resorts of Torbay in Devon, England. Its tracks are shared with the Exeter to Plymouth Line along the South Devon sea wall.
Clock on The Exchange, Bristol, showing two minute hands, one for London time and one for Bristol time (GMT minus 11 minutes).. Railway time was the standardised time arrangement first applied by the Great Western Railway in England in November 1840, the first recorded occasion when different local mean times were synchronised and a single standard time applied.
After Bradshaw's ceased printing in 1961 [4] (as it couldn't compete with the cheaper regional timetables), there was a gap of 13 years without a system-wide schedule. This changed in 1974, when British Rail launched their first nationwide timetable, costing 50p (roughly £10 in 2020) and running to 1,350 pages. [ 1 ]
A 7 ft (2,134 mm) broad gauge branch line was opened by the South Devon Railway from Newton Abbot on 18 December 1848; Torre was the terminus and known as Torquay. [3] This line was extended by the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway on 2 August 1859, which opened the present Torquay railway station at Livermead so the original station was renamed Torre.
D2192 was operated by British Rail between 1961 and 1969. It was sold to the Dart Valley Railway in 1970 but moved to the Torbay Steam Railway on 24 July 1977. [29] 03371 (D2371) Class 03: 1958 2015 D2371 entered service with British Rail in 1958. It was later renumbered 03371 and withdrawn in 1987.
The railway to Kingswear was built by the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway, opening on 16 August 1864. [1] The original aim had been to reach Dartmouth but the railway station in that town, which sold train tickets and processed parcels but lacked platforms and trains, was only ever reached by ferry. The railway company opened the Yacht Club Hotel ...
At around the same time the signalling was all concentrated in the South signal box, although the North box was retained as a ground frame to work points for sidings at this end of the station. The Great Western Railway was nationalised into British Railways in 1948. The North ground frame was demolished in 1966 as the sidings had been taken ...