South Devon Railway Company
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The South Devon Railway Company built and operated the railway from Exeter to Plymouth and Torquay in Devon, England. It was a 7 ft 1⁄4 in broad gauge railway built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Dawlish in the 1870s with the station and atmospheric pumping in the background
Newton Abbot
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Newton Abbot is a market town and civil parish on the River Teign in the Teignbridge District of Devon, England. Its population was 24,029 in 2011, and was estimated at 26,655 in 2019. It grew rapidly
South Devon Railway Company
…of rocky cliffs through short tunnels and the longer Parson's Tunnel to Teignmouth. Here turning west it follows the north bank of the River Teign to Newton Abbot, where the company's workshops were located. Beyond Newton Abbot the main line climbs up a sustained two-mile (3.2 km) gradient of 1 in 36 (2.78%) at…
View over central Newton Abbot taken from Wolborough Hill, July 2005
Newton Abbot railway station
Newton's Place, formerly St Leonard's Church: Town Council's headquarters since 2021.
Photochrom of St Leonard's Tower, 1895