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« Reply #15 on: December 01, 2023, 07:11:14 »

Surely Exmouth survived because it was expected to become and has become a commuter town for Exeter, just has Torre, Torquay, and Paignton have. They will continue to be as Exeter follows it's anti-car policy.
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« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2024, 11:06:03 »

Picking up this thread a year later - thanks to "On this day" and continuing to stray off topic (I may split later), I bring you two more parts of the "passenger services to be withdrawn" maps so the set of 3 now includes most of the current GWR (Great Western Railway) territory and our neighbours.





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« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2024, 15:35:59 »

That map hasn't got Newton Abbott to Moreton Hampstead via Heathfield and it branch via Chudleigh to Exeter closed 1958. The branch to Princetown is also missing.

The railways killed the villages of central Devon.
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« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2024, 20:49:52 »

That map hasn't got Newton Abbott to Moreton Hampstead via Heathfield and it branch via Chudleigh to Exeter closed 1958. The branch to Princetown is also missing.

The railways killed the villages of central Devon.

The map says 'Services under consideration for closure in August 1962, which in some cases have already been withdrawn, are included in the map" but it does not back to all lines ever open. So missing from the map that I notice (in addition to yours) are:
* Totnes to Ashburton
* Fowey to St Blazey
* Barnstaple to Lynmouth
* Bridgwater to Edington
* Plymouth to Yealmpton
* Bideford to Appledore
* Yatton to Blagdon
* Highbidge to Burnham
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« Reply #19 on: November 29, 2024, 17:07:57 »

The map does not include the Bristol and North Somerset line which had also already closed for passengers, but not coal.
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« Reply #20 on: November 30, 2024, 08:48:37 »

What was the significance of the dotted red lines on the map?
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« Reply #21 on: November 30, 2024, 08:56:15 »

What was the significance of the dotted red lines on the map?

Local stations to be closed
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