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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.
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 ...
A second track was laid to Newton Abbot and brought into use on 22 May 1876 along with a second platform at Kingskerswell; the double line was extended to Torquay on 26 March 1882. The station is situated in a cutting beneath a viaduct carrying a road across the line. The station building was at road level on the west side, with the booking ...
Track gauge 10 + 1 ⁄ 4 in ( 260 mm ) Located at Trago Mills Regional Shopping Centre, Newton Abbot , the 10 + 1 ⁄ 4 in ( 260 mm ) ridable miniature railway Bickington Steam Railway was opened in 1988, using equipment recovered from the Suffolk Wildlife Park, which itself was taken from Rudyard Lake .
An Italianate building on the north side of the single track housed a booking office and waiting room on the ground floor, with accommodation above for the station master. The line was doubled from Hemerdon to Cornwood on 14 May 1893 and a signal box was opened at the east end of the station, replacing an earlier one at the west end.
Newton Abbot railway station, serving the town of Newton Abbot in Devon, England; Newton MRT station, an underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the North South Line and Downtown Line in Singapore; Newton Corner station, a bus station in Newton, Massachusetts, US, formerly a railway station known as Newton; Newtonville station, a railway ...
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.