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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 ...
It was loaned to the Dart Valley Railway from the National Collection but was usually on display rather than operating. [145] [146] D2192 Class 03: 1961 1970 - 1977: D2192 was operated by British Rail between 1961 and 1969. It was sold to the Dart Valley Railway, arriving on 25 August 1970, but moved to the Torbay Steam Railway on 24 July 1977 ...
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 ...
Dorset Central Railway, first section opened on 28 August 1854. The S&D Joint Railway was jointly operated by the Midland Railway and the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR). After the 1 January 1923 Grouping, joint ownership of the S&DJR passed to the LMS and the Southern Railway. [1] South Eastern Railway incorporated 1836
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 ...
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 Southern Railway Company continued to exist as a legal entity until it went into voluntary liquidation on 10 June 1949, having satisfied the requirements of sections 12, 13 and 24 of the Transport Act 1947 to ensure that all assets had been transferred to the British Transport Commission or otherwise properly distributed.
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)