Never knew the station building from Totnes Riverside was from a Station on the Birdport Branch Line but it's a lovely line that I haven't been to yet, it's like Kidderminster Town Station on the SVR isn't the station that was opened when the line was open, Brilliant Video and looking forward to the next one
Thank you so much! Yeah, fascinating how so many lines have had to build anew for changing circumstances - and the fact that they've been able to is an immense credit to their efforts. :)
In May 1997 I was at Dartington visiting friends and took a train from Buckfastleigh to Totnes. Loco No. 7760 pulled it. Photos of that day show lovely weather. It was and still is very bucolic as you say. Remember sitting on that first bench next to the pagoda shed in Buckfastleigh with a nice young lady. Unlike Christopher Flynn we were both on telly by that time. Bloody actors! Thank you for this lovely reminder.
Oh, totally agree! Basically strongarming the railway into it too, demanding they pay for the road improvements - like it was their business to begin with - or we'll sever your railway and make it almost impossible to put back. Real short sighted thinking there, lads!
Nope! Very close - in fact, if you look on the map at 4:02, the branch in the bottom right of the screen from Newton Abbot through Torquay? Right in the bottom right of the screen is Paignton - the railway south of that is what's now the Dartmouth Railway :)
@@HeyItsAJOmega yes indeedy! I was thinking of visiting it next week but sadly looks like the weather has decided to go all January again 🤣 Lovely part of the country!
Great video! If you're ever in the area try out the kent and east sussex railway. Its a proper old branch line that trundles through rural kent and east sussex believe it or not! And its a decent length at about 10 miles. 😊
I know of that line! Believe it or not, it's probably the most local line to where I live :) I remember my family taking me down there when I was very little, so I'd love to return ^_^
@@HeyItsAJOmega Thats great! I'm starting my induction as a cleaner there next month so will hopefully be on the footplate at some point. It really is a great little railway. Really hoping they get their extension to Robertsbridge junction built.
Not the full-length sets from London, but they still run Castle sets, which are half length and run intercity between places like Cardiff, Bristol, Exeter, Devon and Cornwall :)
