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This Super Saloon was sold to the Dart Valley Railway Company for their directors' use. It was transferred to the Torbay Steam Railway in the 1980s but was sold to the South Devon Railway Trust in 2004 and returned to Buckfastleigh. [48] [62] 9346 GWR Saloon 1896 A diagram G20 six-wheel saloon, originally numbered 2540 but later 9346.
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 ...
Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW) Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (RI) Chicago and North Western Transportation Company (CNW) Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw Railroad; Cincinnati, Saginaw, and Mackinaw Railroad [3] Colorado and Southern Railway (C&S) Columbia Tap Railway [4] Conrail (CR) Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW)
[1] [2] The railway and connecting boat and bus services are jointly promoted as the Dartmouth Steam Railway and River Boat Company. Unusually amongst heritage railways, it is a commercial operation which does not rely on volunteer labour or charitable donations, although a few volunteers help at Churston railway station .
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.
This company, in turn, amalgamated with the Great Western Railway on 1 February 1876. The GWR was nationalised on 1 January 1948 as part of British Railways . In 1977, the Parliamentary Select Committee on Nationalised Industries recommended considering electrification of more of Britain's rail network and, by 1979, BR presented a range of ...
The Torbay and Brixham Railway was built independently, and almost solely due to the efforts of a local proprietor of the fishing harbour, R. W. Wolston. The line opened on 28 February 1868 between Brixham Road station, on the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway line, to Brixham. Brixham Road station was renamed Churston on the same day.
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 ...