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<blockquote data-quote="Hayman" data-source="post: 370752" data-attributes="member: 52867"><p>The branch line ran from Totnes to Ashburton - 8.5 miles - with intermediate stations at Staverton (3 miles from Totnes) and Buckfastleigh (6 miles from Totnes). When the line was re-opened by volunteers as the Dart Valley Railway, it was still possible to travel from near the junction with the main line to Ashburton. But when the A38 was made dual carriageway as part of the Devon Expressway, the section between Buckfastleigh and Ashburton was lost - despite the Devon County Council initially supporting its retention. The station buildings at Ashburton are still there, including the Brunelian overall roof covering where the trains came in and the loco was able to run round if not on a push-pull train. Today it would cost some £40 million to restore the line and the station to railway use. </p><p></p><p>The line from the Totnes end to Buckfsatleigh is now run by the South Devon Railway - the DVR having lost interest in it after purchasing the Paignton to Kingswear part of the branch from Newton Abbot.</p><p></p><p>Even in my days in the 1950s - living at Staverton and then Buckfastleigh - Dartmoor was seen as an ideal place for Outward Bound type activities. The Ten Tors walk is one such event. In the early 1950s I walked with my grandfather across the moor from Princetown to Holne, with nothing more than the inch-to-the-mile Ordnance Survey map. </p><p></p><p>Steam is not yet dead - not even on the Big Railway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hayman, post: 370752, member: 52867"] The branch line ran from Totnes to Ashburton - 8.5 miles - with intermediate stations at Staverton (3 miles from Totnes) and Buckfastleigh (6 miles from Totnes). When the line was re-opened by volunteers as the Dart Valley Railway, it was still possible to travel from near the junction with the main line to Ashburton. But when the A38 was made dual carriageway as part of the Devon Expressway, the section between Buckfastleigh and Ashburton was lost - despite the Devon County Council initially supporting its retention. The station buildings at Ashburton are still there, including the Brunelian overall roof covering where the trains came in and the loco was able to run round if not on a push-pull train. Today it would cost some £40 million to restore the line and the station to railway use. The line from the Totnes end to Buckfsatleigh is now run by the South Devon Railway - the DVR having lost interest in it after purchasing the Paignton to Kingswear part of the branch from Newton Abbot. Even in my days in the 1950s - living at Staverton and then Buckfastleigh - Dartmoor was seen as an ideal place for Outward Bound type activities. The Ten Tors walk is one such event. In the early 1950s I walked with my grandfather across the moor from Princetown to Holne, with nothing more than the inch-to-the-mile Ordnance Survey map. Steam is not yet dead - not even on the Big Railway. [/QUOTE]
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