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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]
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 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]
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 ...
National Alabama Corporation (NAC) National Railway Utilization Company (1976–) Pickens, South Carolina [9] New Haven Car Company (c. 1860 – c. 1879) New Haven, Connecticut [9] Newport News Shipbuilding Company; Niagara Car Wheel Company; Nobel Brothers & Company (1880s) Rome, Georgia [9] Norca Machinery
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 ...
After he won the contract to supply the atmospheric pipes he bought an ironworks at Bridgwater in Somerset to undertake the work and, later, to build rolling stock for several railways. This location allowed the import by boat of raw materials from Wales and the dispatch of finished work to south Devon using the Bristol and Exeter Railway. The ...
In 1861 the Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway Company was formed at the Globe Hotel in Newton Abbot, and in 1862 the bill for making the railway was given royal assent as the Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. cxxviii). Work on the line commenced in 1863, and the major earthworks (with cuttings and ...