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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Newton renamed Newton Abbot 1 March 1897; Totnes; Brent - opened 15 June 1848; closed 5 October 1964; Wrangaton - renamed Kingsbridge Road May 1849 and reverted to Wrangaton 1 July 1895; Bittaford Platform; opened 18 November 1907, closed 2 March 1959; Ivybridge - opened 15 June 1848, closed 2 March 1959; new station opened about one mile east ...
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.
A new application for funding was made in June 2020 for a new design incorporating lifts instead of ramps. If government funding is approved a new planning application would be made. [4] The station was awarded £7.8m from the New Stations Fund in November 2020. [5] [6] It was reported in 2022 that the cost of the station will be £13.1 million.
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).