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The rolling stock preserved on the South Devon Railway is used to operate passenger services on the railway and for its maintenance. Other items are displayed for their historic interest or are awaiting restoration. The South Devon Railway (SDR) is a 6 mi 51 ch (10.7 km) heritage railway in Devon, England. [1]
The railway has its own engineering workshops, run as South Devon Railway Engineering Ltd (SDRE), which restores locomotives and rolling stock for the South Devon Railway. [ 18 ] SDRE also undertakes external contracts.
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 ...
South Devon Railway may refer to: 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 ...
The company's name was changed to the South Devon Railway and a parliamentary bill was submitted in the 1844 session; with little opposition, it obtained its authorising act of Parliament, the South Devon Railway Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. lxviii), on 4 July 1844. Share capital was to be £1,100,000 and the associated companies agree to subscribe ...
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The South Devon Railway was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to be operated by atmospheric power, ... rolling stock, machinery, tools etc.
George Hennet (1799–1857) was an English railway engineer and contractor. He undertook many contracts for Isambard Kingdom Brunel's broad gauge railways in the South West of England and funded the provision of extra facilities on the South Devon Railway, these formed the basis of a general trading business that he conducted.