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73 relations: Atlantic Coast Express, Avonside Engine Company, Ball clay, Barnstaple railway station, Barnstaple Town railway station, Beeching cuts, Bideford, Bideford Railway Heritage Centre, Bideford railway station, Birkenhead, Bristol and Exeter Railway, Bristol and Gloucester Railway, Broad-gauge railway, Chapelton railway station, Copplestone railway station, Cornwall, Cornwall Railway, Cowley, Devon, Crediton, Crediton railway station, Cycling infrastructure, Dartmoor, Devon and Somerset Railway, Eggesford railway station, Exeter, Exeter Central railway station, Exeter St Davids railway station, Fremington, Devon, Gauge War, Great Western Railway, Halwill Junction railway station, Instow, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Joseph Locke, King's Nympton railway station, Lapford railway station, London and South Western Railway, Maritime Line, Morchard Road railway station, Newton St Cyres railway station, North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway, Portsmouth Arms railway station, Railway Mania, Railways Act 1921, Rights issue, River Creedy, River Dart, River Exe, River Mole, Devon, ..., River Taw, River Torridge, River Yeo, Robert Stephenson and Company, South Devon Railway Company, Southern Railway (UK), Southern Railway routes west of Salisbury, Standard-gauge railway, Tarka Line, Tarka Trail, Taunton, The Railway Magazine, Thomas Brassey, Torrington and Marland Railway, Torrington railway station, Umberleigh railway station, Vulcan Foundry, William Tite, World War I, Yeoford railway station, 0-6-0, 2-2-2, 2-4-0. Expand index (23 more) »
Atlantic Coast Express
The Atlantic Coast Express (ACE) is an express passenger train in England that has operated at various times between London and seaside resorts in the South West England.
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Avonside Engine Company
The Avonside Engine Company was a locomotive manufacturer in Avon Street, St. Philip's, Bristol, England between 1864 and 1934.
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Ball clay
Ball clays are kaolinitic sedimentary clays that commonly consist of 20–80% kaolinite, 10–25% mica, 6–65% quartz.
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Barnstaple railway station
Barnstaple railway station is the northern terminus of the Tarka Line and serves the town of Barnstaple, Devon.
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Barnstaple Town railway station
Barnstaple Town railway station was an intermediate station on the L&SWR line to Ilfracombe, England.
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Beeching cuts
The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) were a reduction of route network and restructuring of the railways in Great Britain, according to a plan outlined in two reports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) and The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), written by Dr Richard Beeching and published by the British Railways Board.
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Bideford
Bideford is a historic port town on the estuary of the River Torridge in north Devon, south-west England.
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Bideford Railway Heritage Centre
The Bideford Railway Heritage Centre CIC (previously the Bideford and Instow Railway Group) in Devon, England, is responsible for the management of the Bideford station site.
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Bideford railway station
The first Bideford railway station was opened on 2 November 1855 as the terminus of the Bideford Extension Railway from Barnstaple.
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Birkenhead
Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England.
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Bristol and Exeter Railway
The Bristol & Exeter Railway (B&ER) was an English railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter.
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Bristol and Gloucester Railway
The Bristol and Gloucester Railway was a railway company opened in 1844 between the cities in its name.
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Broad-gauge railway
A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge broader than the standard-gauge railways.
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Chapelton railway station
Chapelton railway station serves the hamlet of Chapelton, part of the civil parish of Tawstock in the English county of Devon.
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Copplestone railway station
Copplestone railway station is on the Tarka Line serving the village of Copplestone in Devon, England.
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Cornwall
Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.
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Cornwall Railway
The Cornwall Railway was a broad gauge railway from Plymouth in Devon to Falmouth in Cornwall, England, built in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Cowley, Devon
Cowley is a hamlet in the parish of Upton Pyne in Devon, England.
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Crediton
Crediton is a town and civil parish in the Mid Devon district of Devon in England.
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Crediton railway station
Crediton railway station is a railway station serving the town of Crediton in Devon, England.
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Cycling infrastructure
Cycling infrastructure refers to all infrastructure which may be used by cyclists.
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Dartmoor
Dartmoor is a moor in southern Devon, England.
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Devon and Somerset Railway
The Devon and Somerset Railway (D&SR) was a cross-country line that connected Barnstaple in Devon, England to the network of the Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) near Taunton.
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Eggesford railway station
Eggesford railway station is a rural station in Devon, England, serving Eggesford, the town of Chulmleigh and surrounding villages.
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Exeter
Exeter is a cathedral city in Devon, England, with a population of 129,800 (mid-2016 EST).
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Exeter Central railway station
Exeter Central railway station is the most centrally located of the stations in the city of Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom.
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Exeter St Davids railway station
Exeter St Davids is the principal railway station serving the city of Exeter in Devon, England.
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Fremington, Devon
Fremington is a very large village, civil parish and former manor in North Devon, the historic centre of which is situated three miles (5 km) west of Barnstaple.
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Gauge War
The Gauge War (or Gauge Wars) was a figurative war of intense competition to control new territory, waged between expanding railway companies in Great Britain in the nineteenth century.
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Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.
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Halwill Junction railway station
Halwill Junction Railway Station was a railway station near the villages of Halwill and Beaworthy in Devon, England.
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Instow
Instow is a village in north Devon, England.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".
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James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie
James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (22 April 1812 – 19 December 1860), styled Lord Ramsay until 1838 and known as The Earl of Dalhousie between 1838 and 1849, was a Scottish statesman, and a colonial administrator in British India.
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Joseph Locke
Joseph Locke (9 August 1805 – 18 September 1860) was a notable English civil engineer of the nineteenth century, particularly associated with railway projects.
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King's Nympton railway station
King's Nympton railway station is a small station on the Tarka Line north west of Exeter St David's station on the way to Barnstaple.
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Lapford railway station
Lapford railway station is a rural station on the Tarka Line in Devon, England, serving the village of Lapford.
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London and South Western Railway
The London and South Western Railway (LSWR) was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922.
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Maritime Line
The Maritime Line is a railway line that runs in the valley of the River Fal from Truro, the county town, to Falmouth on the south coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom.
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Morchard Road railway station
Morchard Road railway station is located in the village of Down St Mary in Devon, England.
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Newton St Cyres railway station
Newton St Cyres railway station is a railway station serving the village of Newton St Cyres, Devon, England.
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North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway
| The North Devon and Cornwall Junction Light Railway was a railway built to serve numerous ball clay pits that lay in the space between the London and South Western Railway's Torrington branch, an extension of the North Devon Railway group, and Halwill, an important rural junction on the North Cornwall Railway and its Okehampton to Bude Line.
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Portsmouth Arms railway station
Portsmouth Arms railway station is a small wayside station on the Tarka Line north of Exeter St. David's station and served by trains running between Exeter and Barnstaple.
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Railway Mania
Railway Mania was an instance of speculative frenzy in Britain in the 1840s.
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Railways Act 1921
The Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government and intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition and retain some of the benefits which the country had derived from a government-controlled railway during and after the Great War of 1914–1918.
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Rights issue
A rights issue is a dividend of subscription rights to buy additional securities in a company made to the company's existing security holders.
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River Creedy
The River Creedy is a small river in Devon, England.
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River Dart
The River Dart is a river in Devon, England which rises high on Dartmoor, and releases to the sea at Dartmouth.
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River Exe
The River Exe in England rises at Exe Head, near the village of Simonsbath, on Exmoor in Somerset, from the Bristol Channel coast, but flows more or less directly due south, so that most of its length lies in Devon.
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River Mole, Devon
The River Mole a tributary of the River Taw in Devon which rises on the southwestern border of Exmoor.
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River Taw
The River Taw rises at Taw Head, a spring on the central northern flanks of Dartmoor, crosses north Devon and close to the sea at the town of Barnstaple, formerly a significant port, empties into Bideford Bay in the Bristol Channel having formed a large estuary of wide meanders which at its western extreme is joined by the estuary of the Torridge.
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River Torridge
The River Torridge is a river in Devon in England.
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River Yeo
River Yeo may refer to several rivers in south west England.
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Robert Stephenson and Company
Robert Stephenson and Company was a locomotive manufacturing company founded in 1823.
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South Devon Railway Company
The South Devon Railway Company built and operated the railway from Exeter to Plymouth and Torquay in Devon, England.
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Southern Railway (UK)
The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping.
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Southern Railway routes west of Salisbury
This article describes the history and operation of the railway routes west of Salisbury built by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) and allied companies, which ultimately became part of the Southern Railway in the United Kingdom.
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Standard-gauge railway
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.
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Tarka Line
The Tarka Line (named after the animal hero in Henry Williamson's book Tarka the Otter) is a railway line from Exeter to Barnstaple in Devon, England.
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Tarka Trail
The Tarka Trail is a series of footpaths and cyclepaths (rail trails) around north Devon, England that follow the route taken by the fictional Tarka the Otter in the book of that name.
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Taunton
Taunton is a large regional town in Somerset, England.
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The Railway Magazine
The Railway Magazine is a monthly British railway magazine, aimed at the railway enthusiast market, that has been published in London since July 1897.
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Thomas Brassey
Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 – 8 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century.
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Torrington and Marland Railway
The Torrington and Marland Railway was a narrow gauge built to carry clay from the quarries at Clay Moor to Torrington in north Devon.
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Torrington railway station
Torrington railway station was a railway station located in Great Torrington, Devon.
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Umberleigh railway station
Umberleigh railway station serves the village of Umberleigh in Devon, England.
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Vulcan Foundry
The Vulcan Foundry Limited was a British locomotive builder sited at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire.
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William Tite
Sir William Tite (February 1798 – 20 April 1873) was an English architect who served as President of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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Yeoford railway station
Yeoford railway station is a rural station on the Tarka Line serving the village of Yeoford in Devon, England.
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0-6-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels.
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2-2-2
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-2-2 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, two powered driving wheels on one axle, and two trailing wheels on one axle.
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2-4-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles and no trailing wheels.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Devon_Railway
