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A361 road
The A361 is a major road in England and at is the longest 3 digit A road in the UK.
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Adhesion
Adhesion is the tendency of dissimilar particles or surfaces to cling to one another (cohesion refers to the tendency of similar or identical particles/surfaces to cling to one another).
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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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Atmospheric railway
An atmospheric railway uses differential air pressure to provide power for propulsion of a railway vehicle.
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Bank engine
A bank engine (United Kingdom/Australia) (colloquially a banker) or helper engine or pusher engine (North America) is a railway locomotive that temporarily assists a train that requires additional power or traction to climb a gradient (or bank).
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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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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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Beyer, Peacock and Company
Beyer, Peacock and Company was an English railway locomotive manufacturer with a factory in Gorton, Manchester.
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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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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Blackwell railway station
Blackwell railway station was a railway station serving Blackwell in the English county of Worcestershire.
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Boxcar
A boxcar is a North American railroad car that is enclosed and generally used to carry freight.
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BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T
The British Railways Standard Class 4 tank is a class of steam locomotive, one of the BR standard classes built during the 1950s.
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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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Branch line
A branch line is a secondary railway line which branches off a more important through route, usually a main line.
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Braunton
Braunton is an English village, civil parish, ecclesiastical parish and former manor in North Devon.
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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 Rail Class 118
The British Rail Class 118 diesel multiple units were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company (BRCW) and introduced from 1960.
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British Rail Class 22
The British Rail Class 22 or "Baby Warship" was a class of diesel-hydraulic locomotives designed for the Western Region of British Railways and built by the North British Locomotive Company.
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British Rail Class 25
The British Rail Class 25 diesel locomotives were also known as Sulzer Type 2.
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British Rail Class 33
The British Rail Class 33 also known as the BRCW Type 3 or Crompton is a class of Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives ordered in 1957 and built for the Southern Region of British Railways between 1960 and 1962.
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British Rail Class 35
The British Rail (BR) Class 35 is a class of mixed-traffic B-B diesel locomotive with hydraulic transmission.
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British Rail Class 42
British Railways' (BR) Type 4 Warship class diesel-hydraulic locomotives were introduced in 1958.
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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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Bromsgrove railway station
Bromsgrove railway station serves the town of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, England.
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Camping coach
Camping coaches were offered by many railway companies in the United Kingdom as accommodation for holiday makers in rural or coastal areas.
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Charity Commission for England and Wales
The Charity Commission for England and Wales is the non-ministerial government department that regulates registered charities in England and Wales and maintains the Central Register of Charities.
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Dartmoor Railway
The Dartmoor Railway is a long railway line in Devon, England.
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Dartmouth Steam Railway
The Dartmouth Steam Railway, formerly known as the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, is a heritage railway on the former Great Western Railway branch line between and in 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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Devon Belle
The Devon Belle was a luxury express passenger train in England which ran between London Waterloo station and Ilfracombe and Plymouth in Devon in the years from 1947 to 1954.
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Devon Coast to Coast Cycle Route
The Devon Coast to Coast Cycle Route is a waymarked route from Ilfracombe in north Devon to Plymouth in south Devon.
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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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Diesel multiple unit
A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines.
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Double heading
In railroad terminology, double heading indicates the use of two locomotives at the front of a train, each operated individually by its own crew.
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Double-track railway
A double-track railway usually involves running one track in each direction, compared to a single-track railway where trains in both directions share the same track.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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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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Exmouth railway station
Exmouth railway station serves the town of Exmouth in Devon, England and is south east of.
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Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.
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Gloucester
Gloucester is a city and district in Gloucestershire, England, of which it is the county town.
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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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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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GWR 2251 Class
The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2251 Class was a class of 0-6-0 steam tender locomotive designed for medium-powered freight.
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GWR 4300 Class
The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4300 Class is a class of 2-6-0 (mogul) steam locomotives, designed by G.J. Churchward for mixed traffic duties.
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H. F. Stephens
Colonel Holman Fred Stephens (30 October 1868 – 23 October 1931) was a British light railway civil engineer and manager.
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Heanton Punchardon
Heanton Punchardon is a village, civil parish and former manor, anciently part of Braunton Hundred.
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Heritage railway
A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.
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Honiton railway station
Honiton railway station serves the town of Honiton in east Devon, England.
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Ilfracombe
Ilfracombe is a seaside resort and civil parish on the North Devon coast, England, with a small harbour surrounded by cliffs.
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Ilfracombe branch line
The Ilfracombe branch of the London & South Western Railway (LSWR), ran between Barnstaple and Ilfracombe in North Devon.
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Kibibyte
The kibibyte is a multiple of the unit byte for quantities of digital information.
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Lee Bay
Lee Bay or just Lee is a small village on the North Devon coast near Woolacombe.
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Lickey Incline
The Lickey Incline, south of Birmingham, is the steepest sustained main-line railway incline in Great Britain.
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Locomotives of the Southern Railway
The Southern Railway took a key role in expanding the 660 V DC third rail electrified network begun by the London & South Western Railway.
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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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London Waterloo station
Waterloo station, also known as London Waterloo, is a central London terminus on the National Rail network in the United Kingdom, located in the Waterloo area of the London Borough of Lambeth.
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LSWR A12 class
The A12 locomotives of the London and South Western Railway were built between the years 1887 and 1895 to the design of William Adams.
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LSWR M7 class
The LSWR M7 class is a class of 0-4-4 passenger tank locomotive built between 1897 and 1911.
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LSWR T1 class
The London and South Western Railway T1 class was a class of fifty 0-4-4T steam tank locomotives designed for suburban passenger work, designed by William Adams and built between 1888–1896.
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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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Mortehoe
Mortehoe is a village and former manor on the north coast of Devon, England.
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Mullacott
Mullacott is a small settlement on the A361 road between Ilfracombe and Barnstaple, in Devon, England.
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Nationalization
Nationalization (or nationalisation) is the process of transforming private assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.
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Newton Abbot railway station
Newton Abbot railway station serves the town of Newton Abbot in Devon, England.
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North Devon
North Devon is a local government district in Devon, England.
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Pall Corporation
Pall Corporation, headquartered in Port Washington, New York, is a global supplier of filtration, separations and purification products.
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Rail trail
A rail trail is the conversion of a disused railway track into a multi-use path, typically for walking, cycling and sometimes horse riding and snowmobiling.
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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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Richard Maunsell
Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell (pronounced "Mansell") (26 May 1868 – 7 March 1944) held the post of Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway from 1913 until the 1923 Grouping and then the post of CME of the Southern Railway in England until 1937.
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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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RM Chivenor
Royal Marines Base Chivenor is a British military base used primarily by 3 Commando Brigade.
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Route summit
A route summit is the highest point on a transportation route crossing higher ground.
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Salisbury railway station
Salisbury railway station serves the city of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England.
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SECR N class
The SECR N class was a type of 2-6-0 ("mogul") steam locomotive designed in 1914 by Richard Maunsell for mixed-traffic duties on the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR).
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Sidmouth Railway
Sidmouth Railway: this article describes a temporary railway to build a pier at Sidmouth Harbour, and the later railway branch lines that connected Sidmouth and Exmouth to the main line network at Sidmouth Junction. Sidmouth had been a fashionable resort and a small port.
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Sidmouth railway station
Sidmouth railway station was a fully operational station located in Sidmouth, Devon, England until its closure in 1967.
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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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SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes
The SR West Country and Battle of Britain classes, collectively known as Light Pacifics or informally as Spam Cans, are air-smoothed 4-6-2 ''Pacific'' steam locomotives designed for the Southern Railway by its Chief Mechanical Engineer Oliver Bulleid.
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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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Totnes railway station
Totnes railway station serves the towns of Totnes and Dartington in Devon, England.
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Transport Act 1968
The Transport Act 1968 (1968 c.73) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Watermouth Castle
Watermouth Castle is a building in Watermouth, near Ilfracombe, North Devon, England, designed by George Wightwick as a residence for the Bassett family in the mid-19th century and is not a true castle but a country house built to resemble one.
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West Somerset Railway
The West Somerset Railway (WSR) is a heritage railway line in Somerset, England.
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William George Beattie
William George Beattie (2 December 1841 – 28 May 1918) was a British locomotive engineer.
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Woolacombe
Woolacombe is a seaside resort on the coast of North Devon, England, which lies at the mouth of a valley (or 'combe') in the parish of Mortehoe.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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0-4-2
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement with no leading wheels, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles and two trailing wheels on one axle.
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0-4-4T
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-4-4 represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and four trailing wheels on two axles.
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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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2-6-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, usually in a leading truck, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels.
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2-6-4
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, a locomotive has two leading wheels, six coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilfracombe_branch_line
