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» CrossCountry (more..)
» Class 221 (more..) |
» between Dawlish and Dawlish Warren
» Dawlish, United Kingdom (more..)
» September 12, 2024 |
| Locomotive No./Train ID |
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» 221 ... (more..)
» 1S47 (more..) |
» Georg Trüb (more..)
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| "Super Voyager" of the class 221 of Cross Country is running the 1S47 from Penzance to Edinburgh along the sea wall between Dawlish and Dawlish Warren. This section of railway was opened by the South Devon Railway Company, running from Exeter St Davids railway station to Teignmouth railway station on 30 May 1846 and extended to Newton Abbot railway station on 31 December 1846. It was a broad gauge railway of 7 ft 1?4 in (2,140 mm) gauge and intended to be worked as an atmospheric railway, although atmospheric trains only ran from 13 September 1847 until 9 September 1848. The South Devon Railway was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway on 1 February 1876 and the gauge converted to the standard 4 feet 8½ inches after 20 May 1892. A station was opened to serve Dawlish Warren in 1905, all the other stations on the sea wall having opened with the line in 1846.
The Great Western Railway was nationalised into British Railways on 1 January 1948. The line is now owned by Network Rail and the stations and majority of trains operated by the modern-day Great Western Railway. |
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