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Bideford Railway Heritage Centre

Index 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. [1]

28 relations: Ball clay, Bank holiday, Barnstaple, Barnstaple railway station, Bideford, Bideford railway station, Brake van, British Rail, British Railways Mark 1, Dartmoor Railway, Devon, Diesel locomotive, England, F. C. Hibberd & Co., Fremington, Devon, Great Torrington, Instow, London and South Western Railway, Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway, Miniatur Wunderland, North Devon Railway, SE&CR Diagram 960 PMV, Signalling control, Southern Railway (UK), Tarka Trail, Tarka Valley Railway, Tourist Standard Open.

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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Bank holiday

A bank holiday is a public holiday in the United Kingdom, some Commonwealth countries, Hong Kong and the Republic of Ireland.

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Barnstaple

Barnstaple is the main town of North Devon, England and possibly the oldest borough in the United Kingdom.

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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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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 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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Brake van

Brake van and guard's van are terms used mainly in the UK, Australia and India for a railway vehicle equipped with a hand brake which can be applied by the guard.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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British Railways Mark 1

British Railways Mark 1 was the family designation for the first standardised designs of railway carriages built by British Railways.

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Dartmoor Railway

The Dartmoor Railway is a long railway line in Devon, England.

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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F. C. Hibberd & Co.

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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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Great Torrington

Great Torrington (often abbreviated to Torrington, though the villages of Little Torrington and Black Torrington are situated in the same region) is a small market town in the north of Devon, England.

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Instow

Instow is a village in north Devon, England.

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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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Lynton and Barnstaple Railway

The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway (L&B) opened as an independent railway in May 1898.

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Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway

The Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway is a water-powered funicular railway joining the twin towns of Lynton and Lynmouth on the rugged coast of North Devon.

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Miniatur Wunderland

Miniatur Wunderland (German for 'miniature wonderland') is a model railway attraction in Hamburg, Germany, and the largest of its kind in the world.

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North Devon Railway

The North Devon Railway was a railway company which operated a line from Cowley Bridge Junction, near Exeter, to Bideford in Devon, England, later becoming part of the London and South Western Railway's system.

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SE&CR Diagram 960 PMV

The Diagram 960 PMVs were a series of Parcels and Miscellaneous Vans built by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SE&CR) from 1919.

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Signalling control

On a rail transport system, signalling control is the process by which control is exercised over train movements by way of railway signals and block systems to ensure that trains operate safely, over the correct route and to the proper timetable.

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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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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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Tarka Valley Railway

The Tarka Valley Railway in Devon, England, is a proposed heritage railway based on plans to rebuild the Barnstaple to Halwill Junction railway line.

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Tourist Standard Open

Tourist Second Open or Tourist Standard Open, abbreviated to TSO, is a type of British Railways coach.

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Redirects here:

Bideford & Instow Railway, Bideford and Instow Railway.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bideford_Railway_Heritage_Centre

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