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The Exe Valley Railway was a branch line built by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in Devon, England, to link its Bristol to Exeter line with its Devon and Somerset Railway (D&SR), thereby connecting Exeter with Dulverton (which is in Somerset). The line was in use from 1884 until 1964.
On 1 May 1885 the Exe Valley Railway was opened from a junction a little to the south of the station. Stoke Canon station was then relocated further south ( 50°46′04″N 3°30′49″W / 50.7679°N 3.5135°W / 50.7679; -3.5135 ( Stoke Canon railway station ) ) so that it could serve both lines from 2 July
The Exe Valley Railway including the Tiverton Branch. Southampton: Kingfisher Railway Productions. ISBN 0-946184-15-1. Sekon, G.A. (2012) [1895]. A History of the Great Western Railway being the Story of the Broad Gauge. Forgotten Books. ASIN B008KCLHMK. Semmens, P.W.B. (1990). The Heyday of GWR Train Services. Newton Abbot: David and Charles ...
The Bristol to Exeter line is a major branch of the Great Western Main Line in the West of England and runs from Bristol, to Exeter, from where it continues as the Exeter to Plymouth line. It was one of the principal routes of the pre-1948 Great Western Railway [ 1 ] which were subsequently taken over by the Western Region of British Railways ...
Bristol and Exeter Railway (1 January 1876) ‡ Chard and Taunton Railway (1863) § Chedder Valley and Yatton Railway (1865) § Exe Valley Railway (1875) § South Devon Railway (1 February 1876) ‡ Dartmouth and Torbay Railway (1862) South Devon and Tavistock Railway (1865) Launceston and South Devon Railway (1869) Moretonhampstead and South ...
Devon Railway Centre No. 14, an Orenstein & Koppel 0-4-0 well tank steam locomotive built in 1912. The Devon Railway Centre is in the village of Bickleigh in Mid Devon, England, at the former Cadeleigh railway station on the closed Great Western Railway branch from Exeter to Dulverton, also known as the Exe Valley Railway.
The West of England line (also known as the West of England Main Line) is a British railway line from Basingstoke, Hampshire, to Exeter St Davids in Devon, England. Passenger services run between London Waterloo station and Exeter; the line intersects with the Wessex Main Line at Salisbury .
Exe Valley Line: GWR Dulverton to Exeter St David's, via Tiverton and Cadeleigh 7 October 1963: Eye Branch: Mellis to Eye 2 February 1931 (to passengers) 13 July 1964 (to all traffic) Fairford branch line: Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway (GWR) Yarnton to Fairford, via Witney 18 June 1962 (to passengers) 2 November 1970 (to all traffic ...