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The South Devon Railway (SDR) is a 6.64-mile (10.69 km) heritage railway from Totnes to Buckfastleigh in Devon. Mostly running alongside the River Dart, it was initially known as the Dart Valley Railway. The railway is now operated by the South Devon Railway Trust, a registered charity. [1]
In due course on 25 July 1864 [note 2] [page needed] the Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway Company obtained an authorising act of Parliament, the Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway Act 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. cclviii). [1] [page needed] [2] [page needed] [3] [page needed] The main line was to be not quite ten miles (16 km ...
Totnes (Riverside) railway station, previously known as Totnes Littlehempston railway station and Littlehempston Riverside railway station, is a railway station situated in Littlehempston in the English county of Devon. It is the southern terminus of the South Devon Railway, a steam-operated heritage railway.
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.
South Devon Railway Company - the company that built the railway from Exeter to Plymouth; South Devon Railway (heritage railway) - the heritage railway from Totnes to Buckfastleigh; South Devon Railway Engineering - rolling stock engineering company based at Buckfastleigh; Other heritage railways in South Devon include: Paignton and Dartmouth ...
The South Devon Railway Company built and operated the railway from Exeter to Plymouth and Torquay in Devon, England. It was a 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in ( 2,140 mm ) broad gauge railway built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel .
The station was opened by the Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway on 1 May 1872. [1] The railway was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway in 1897 and this in turn was nationalised into British Railways on 1 January 1948. A camping coach was positioned here by the Western Region from 1956 to 1961. [2]
The South Devon Railway Trust is a charitable organisation that operates a heritage railway from Totnes to Buckfastleigh in Devon, alongside the River Dart. The heritage railway itself is known as the South Devon Railway, named in honour of the South Devon Railway Company that originally built much of Devon's railway infrastructure, although ...