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Local interests promoted a Devon and Cornwall Central Railway which obtained an authorising act of Parliament, the Devon and Cornwall Central Railway Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. ccxxviii), on 18 August 1882 to build a line from Lidford to Calstock, where it would join an existing short mineral line, the East Cornwall Mineral Railway (ECMR), [note 1] which it would purchase and convert it to ...
New England Fire and History Museum, Brewster [19] Old Colony & Fall River Railroad Museum, Fall River, closed in September 2016 after years of low attendance. All railcar exhibits moved to other museums or sold to railroads. Plymouth Wax Museum, Plymouth, Cape Cod Visitor information, [20]
The next day, it was leased to the Old Colony Railroad for 99 years. [1] In 1893, it became part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad as part of the lease of the entire Old Colony Railroad network. [2] Passenger service, never more than a few trips per day, was often operated as Providence–Plymouth or Taunton–Plymouth trains.
The Old Colony Railroad (OC) was a major railroad system, mainly covering southeastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, which operated from 1845 to 1893. Old Colony trains ran from Boston to points such as Plymouth, Fall River, New Bedford, Newport, Providence, Fitchburg, Lowell and Cape Cod.
Laira was the location of the temporary terminus of the South Devon Railway from 5 May 1848 when a small engine shed would have been provided. With the completion of the line to Plymouth Millbay railway station on 2 April 1849 a new shed was provided there and the facilities at Laira dismantled, although it remained a junction for the branch line to Sutton Harbour which was mixed gauge for the ...
The Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway (P&DR) was a 4 ft 6 in (1,372 mm) gauge railway built to improve the economy of moorland areas around Princetown in Devon, England. Independent carriers operated horse-drawn wagons and paid the company a toll. It opened in 1823, and a number of short branches were built in the next few years.
The network of railways in Plymouth, Devon, England, was developed by companies affiliated to two competing railways, the Great Western Railway and the London and South Western Railway. [1] At their height two main lines and three branch lines served 28 stations in the Plymouth area, but today just six stations remain in use.
When first opened, the platforms were covered by a large wooden roof but more conventional canopies were provided when the station was redesigned in 1900–03. Outside the station was the South Devon Railway headquarters building on the east side of the forecourt and opposite was the independent Duke of Cornwall Hotel which accommodated passengers for the trains and ships.