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Lynton and Barnstaple Railway

Index Lynton and Barnstaple Railway

The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway (L&B) opened as an independent railway in May 1898. [1]

88 relations: Act of Parliament, Alan Keef, Arup Group, Baldwin Locomotive Works, BAM Nuttall, Barnstaple, Barnstaple Town railway station, Baronet, BBC Two, Bideford Railway Heritage Centre, Blackmoor Gate, Boston Lodge, Braunton Road railway accident, Brazil, Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works, British narrow-gauge railways, Charitable trust, Chelfham Viaduct, Chumhill railway accident, Clovelly, Coal, Devon, Devon and Somerset Railway, Exe (locomotive), Exmoor, Ffestiniog Railway, George Newnes, Headshunt, Hunslet Engine Company, Ilfracombe branch line, James Szlumper, Kerr, Stuart and Company, Killington Lane railway station, Leeds, Lempor ejector, Lew (locomotive), Light Railways Act 1896, Loading gauge, Lyd (locomotive), Lyn (locomotive), Lynbarn Railway, Lynmouth, Lynton, Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Company Limited, Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Trust, Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway, Lynton and Lynmouth railway station, Maffei (company), Manning Wardle, Narrow-gauge railway, ..., National Railway Museum, North Devon Council, Parracombe, Philadelphia, Plymouth, Recife, Rolling stock, Rolling stock of the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, Shapland & Petter, Sic, Single-track railway, South Molton, Southern Railway (UK), Steam locomotive, Steel, Stoke Rivers, Swansea, Tan-y-Bwlch railway station, Taw (locomotive), The Strand Magazine, Thomas Becket, Tit-Bits, Track bed, Transport and Works Act 1992, Underframe, Walhalla Goldfields Railway, Welsh Highland Railway, West Somerset Railway, Winson Engineering, Wistlandpound Reservoir, Woody Bay railway station, Woody Bay, Devon, World War I, World War II, Yeo (locomotive), 2-4-2, 2-6-2, 4-4-0. Expand index (38 more) »

Act of Parliament

Acts of Parliament, also called primary legislation, are statutes passed by a parliament (legislature).

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Alan Keef

Alan Keef Ltd is a British narrow gauge railway engineering company which manufactures, overhauls, and deals in narrow gauge locomotives, rolling stock and associated equipment.

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Arup Group

Arup (officially Arup Group Limited) is a multinational professional services firm headquartered in London which provides engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment.

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Baldwin Locomotive Works

The Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American manufacturer of railroad locomotives from 1825 to 1956.

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BAM Nuttall

BAM Nuttall Limited (formerly known as Edmund Nuttall Limited) is a construction and civil engineering company headquartered in Camberley, United Kingdom.

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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 Town railway station

Barnstaple Town railway station was an intermediate station on the L&SWR line to Ilfracombe, England.

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Baronet

A baronet (or; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the rare female equivalent, a baronetess (or; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, an hereditary title awarded by the British Crown.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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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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Blackmoor Gate

Blackmoor Gate, the western gateway to Exmoor National Park, sits on the watershed between tributaries of the rivers Yeo and Heddon nearly 305 m (1000 ft) above sea level.

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Boston Lodge

This article is about the locomotive works.

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Braunton Road railway accident

The Braunton Road railway accident occurred on 1 January 1910 in England.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works

The Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works was a manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons, agricultural machinery and stationary engines, based in Bristol.

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British narrow-gauge railways

There were more than a thousand British narrow-gauge railways ranging from large, historically significant common carriers to small, short-lived industrial railways.

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Charitable trust

A charitable trust is an irrevocable trust established for charitable purposes and, in some jurisdictions, a more specific term than "charitable organization".

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Chelfham Viaduct

Chelfham Viaduct is a railway viaduct built in 1896-97 to carry the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway (L&B) across the Stoke Rivers valley.

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Chumhill railway accident

The Chumhill railway accident occurred 26 February 1913 in England, killing two.

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Clovelly

Clovelly is a small village in the Torridge district of Devon, England.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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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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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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Exe (locomotive)

Exe was the name given to one of three Manning Wardle 2-6-2T locomotives built in 1898 for the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway.

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Exmoor

Exmoor is loosely defined as an area of hilly open moorland in west Somerset and north Devon in South West England.

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Ffestiniog Railway

The Ffestiniog Railway (Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a narrow-gauge heritage railway, located in Gwynedd, Wales.

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George Newnes

Sir George Newnes, 1st Baronet (13 March 1851 – 9 June 1910) was an English publisher and editor and a founding father of popular journalism.

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Headshunt

A headshunt (or escape track in the United States) is a short length of track provided to release locomotives at terminal platforms, or to allow shunting to take place clear of main lines.

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Hunslet Engine Company

The Hunslet Engine Company was founded in 1864 in Hunslet, Leeds, England.

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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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James Szlumper

Sir James Weeks Szlumper, JP, DL, PJGD (1834 – 27 October 1926), was an English civil engineer.

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Kerr, Stuart and Company

Kerr, Stuart and Company Ltd was a locomotive manufacturer from Stoke-on-Trent, England.

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Killington Lane railway station

Killington Lane is a temporary terminus about one mile South West of Woody Bay on the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway (L&B), the narrow gauge line that originally ran for 19 miles through Exmoor from Barnstaple to Lynton and Lynmouth in North Devon.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Lempor ejector

The Lempor ejector is a steam locomotive exhaust system developed by noted Argentine locomotive engineer Livio Dante Porta.

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Lew (locomotive)

Lew was a Manning Wardle 2-6-2T built in 1925 for the narrow gauge Lynton and Barnstaple Railway.

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Light Railways Act 1896

The Light Railways Act 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c.48) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it then was).

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Loading gauge

A loading gauge defines the maximum height and width for railway vehicles and their loads to ensure safe passage through bridges, tunnels and other structures.

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Lyd (locomotive)

Lyd is a steam locomotive built by the Ffestiniog Railway in their Boston Lodge shops over a period of 15 years.

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Lyn (locomotive)

Lyn was a 2-4-2 tank steam locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1898 for the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway.

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Lynbarn Railway

The narrow gauge Lynbarn Railway opened in 1995 as a park ride at the Milky Way Adventure Park, a family-based theme park attraction near Clovelly in north Devon, England.

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Lynmouth

Lynmouth is a village in Devon, England, on the northern edge of Exmoor.

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Lynton

Lynton is a small town on the Exmoor coast in Devon, England standing on top of the cliffs above the picturesque harbour village of Lynmouth, to which it is connected by the Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway.

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Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Company Limited

The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Company Limited was a private company, limited by guarantee, with no share capital.

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Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Trust

The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Trust (The Trust) is an educational charity supporting the rebuilding and operation of the railway by the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Company, in North Devon, England.

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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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Lynton and Lynmouth railway station

Lynton and Lynmouth railway station was the terminus of the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, a narrow gauge line that ran through Exmoor from Barnstaple to Lynton and Lynmouth in North Devon, England.

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Maffei (company)

Maffei was a manufacturer of railway locomotives based in Munich, Germany.

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Manning Wardle

Manning Wardle was a steam locomotive manufacturer based in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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Narrow-gauge railway

A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.

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National Railway Museum

The National Railway Museum (NRM) is a museum in York forming part of the British Science Museum Group of National Museums and telling the story of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society.

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North Devon Council

North Devon Council was created on 1 April 1974 to administer the North Devon District in the county of Devon in south west England.

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Parracombe

Parracombe is a rural settlement near Lynton, in Devon, England.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Plymouth

Plymouth is a city situated on the south coast of Devon, England, approximately south-west of Exeter and west-south-west of London.

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Recife

Recife is the fourth-largest urban agglomeration in Brazil with 3,995,949 inhabitants, the largest urban agglomeration of the North/Northeast Regions, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco in the northeast corner of South America.

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Rolling stock

The term rolling stock in rail transport industry originally referred to any vehicles that move on a railway.

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Rolling stock of the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway

The Rolling stock of the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway was one of the most distinctive aspects of the narrow gauge line which ran for almost twenty miles across Exmoor in North Devon, England, from 1898 to 1935.

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Shapland & Petter

Shapland & Petter were architectural doorset manufacturers in Barnstaple, Devon, England before being taken over by the LS Group in 1999.

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Sic

The Latin adverb sic ("thus", "just as"; in full: sic erat scriptum, "thus was it written") inserted after a quoted word or passage indicates that the quoted matter has been transcribed or translated exactly as found in the source text, complete with any erroneous or archaic spelling, surprising assertion, faulty reasoning, or other matter that might otherwise be taken as an error of transcription.

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Single-track railway

A single-track railway is a railway where trains traveling in both directions share the same track.

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South Molton

South Molton is a small town 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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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.

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Stoke Rivers

Stoke Rivers is a small village five miles north-east of Barnstaple, in Devon, England.

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Swansea

Swansea (Abertawe), is a coastal city and county, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Dinas a Sir Abertawe) in Wales, UK.

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Tan-y-Bwlch railway station

Tan-y-Bwlch railway station is the principal intermediate passenger station on the narrow gauge Ffestiniog Railway, which was built in 1836 to carry dressed slate from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog for export by sea.

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Taw (locomotive)

Taw was the name of a Manning Wardle 2-6-2T locomotive which was built in 1898 for Lynton and Barnstaple Railway.

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The Strand Magazine

The Strand Magazine was a monthly magazine founded by George Newnes, composed of short fiction and general interest articles.

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Thomas Becket

Thomas Becket (also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London, and later Thomas à Becket; (21 December c. 1119 (or 1120) – 29 December 1170) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. He engaged in conflict with Henry II, King of England, over the rights and privileges of the Church and was murdered by followers of the king in Canterbury Cathedral. Soon after his death, he was canonised by Pope Alexander III.

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Tit-Bits

Tit-Bits from all the interesting Books, Periodicals, and Newspapers of the World, more commonly known as Tit-Bits, was a British weekly magazine founded by an early father of popular journalism George Newnes on 22 October 1881.

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Track bed

The track bed or trackbed is the groundwork onto which a railway track is laid.

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Transport and Works Act 1992

The Transport and Works Act 1992 (TWA) was established by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to provide a system by which the construction of rail transport, tramway, inland waterway and harbour infrastructure could proceed in the UK by order of the Minister of State for Transport rather than, as before, on the passing of a private bill.

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Underframe

An underframe is a framework of wood or metal carrying the main body structure of a railway vehicle, such as a locomotive, carriage or wagon.

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Walhalla Goldfields Railway

The Walhalla Goldfields Railway is a narrow gauge tourist railway located in the Thomson River and Stringers Creek valleys in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, near the former gold-mining town and tourist destination of Walhalla.

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Welsh Highland Railway

The Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) or Rheilffordd Eryri is a long, restored narrow gauge heritage railway in the Welsh county of Gwynedd, operating from Caernarfon to Porthmadog, and passing through a number of popular tourist destinations including Beddgelert and the Aberglaslyn Pass.

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West Somerset Railway

The West Somerset Railway (WSR) is a heritage railway line in Somerset, England.

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Winson Engineering

Winson Engineering was a British manufacturer of narrow gauge and miniature railway steam locomotives and rolling stock during the 1990s.

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Wistlandpound Reservoir

Wistlandpound Reservoir is a reservoir in Devon, England owned by South West Water.

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Woody Bay railway station

Woody Bay, within the Exmoor National Park, is a station on the former Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, a narrow gauge line that ran through Exmoor from Barnstaple to Lynton and Lynmouth in North Devon.

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Woody Bay, Devon

Woody Bay is a bay on the North Devon coast of England, three miles west of Lynton and eight east of Combe Martin with a stoney beach.

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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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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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Yeo (locomotive)

Yeo was one of three narrow gauge 2-6-2T steam locomotives built by Manning Wardle in 1898 for the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway.

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2-4-2

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 two trailing wheels on one axle.

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2-6-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels, six coupled driving wheels and two trailing wheels.

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4-4-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, represents the arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, usually in a leading bogie, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and no trailing wheels.

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References

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

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