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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 .
The new Tiverton Library and council offices. Tiverton's revival in recent years began with the construction of the A361 (the North Devon Link Road) in the late 1980s. In the 1990s, an industrial estate was built at Little Gornhay on the north-eastern edge of the town and a junction was added to the Link Road, with a distributor road (now the A396) into the town that has become its main gateway.
GWR 1400 Class 0-4-2T 1442, known as the "Tivvy Bumper" at Tiverton, 1968. The branch shuttle service was known locally as the Tivvy Bumper.It used an Autocoach. [1] One of the locomotives used to run the service (no 1442) is now on display at the Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life, having been purchased by Lord Amory in 1965, and moved to the museum in 1978 to protect it from the weather.) [2] [3]
Tiverton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Tiverton and Tilstone Fearnall, in the Cheshire West and Chester district and ceremonial county of Cheshire in England. It had a population of 406 in 2001, [ 1 ] reducing to 318 at the 2011 census. [ 2 ]
The Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life has one of the largest museum collections in the West Country, and contains various exhibits relating to the economic and social life of the region. [4] One of the most popular exhibits is the Great Western Railway steam locomotive number 1442 of the 1400 Class, known as the "Tivvy Bumper".
Tiverton may also refer to: Canada. Tiverton, Ontario, a village; Tiverton, Nova Scotia, a village known for its "Balancing Rock" United Kingdom.
Penge (/ p ɛ n dʒ /) is a suburb ... In modern times it is particularly well known for lending its name to a bus route terminus. From 1914, General Omnibus routes ...
Data from Tiverton-2SW is collected by the NWS in Taunton, Massachusetts as well as the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina. As of 2006, retail shops are the major employers in the town. Since the mid-20th century, Tiverton has grown as a summer resort and residential area, and as a suburb of Fall River, Massachusetts.