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Railways & Recollections The Dartmouth Steam Railway, 82 (Paperback)
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Railways & Recollections The Dartmouth Steam Railway, 82 (Paperback)
Series: Railways & Recollections, 82
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Loot Price R270
Discovery Miles 2 700
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In the heyday of the Great Western Railway the `Torbay Express' ran
from London's Paddington Station to Torquay, Paignton and Kingswear
where a GWR-operated ferry took travellers to a station, without
rails, across the water at Dartmouth. Nowadays diesel-hauled Great
Western trains terminate at Paignton, but across the platform
memories of those halcyon days live on, courtesy of the Dartmouth
Steam Railway ,which operates steam hauled trains along the
Paignton to Kingswear branch in true Great Western Railway
tradition. The Dartmouth Steam Railway, formerly known as the
Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, is a 7-mile heritage railway
on the former Great Western Railway branch line from Paignton to
Kingswear. Between Paignton and Churston, once the junction with
the Brixham branch, the railway runs along the spectacular Torbay
coast affording panoramic seascapes across Lyme Bay to Portland
Bill, on clear days. From Churston the line heads inland through
the wooded slopes bordering the Dart estuary before emerging
riverside on the approach to Kingswear, giving unrivalled views of
the fascinating boats on the river and on the opposite bank the
olde worlde town of Dartmouth and the famous Britannia Royal Naval
College. With a selection of archive photographs supplementing the
author's own portfolio, this book introduces us to the line and
infrastructure inherited by the Dart Valley Railway Company when
British Railways ceased operations in 1972. The historic
locomotives that have operated services in the years since, the
stunning coastal and riverside scenery through which the line
passes and a number of the events and attractions held on and
around the railway combine to create an atmosphere of a holiday
branch line that has been enjoyed by thousands of families and
enthusiasts each and every year since Victorian times.
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