Dartmouth Steam Railway

The Kingswear branch of 1864, sold by British Rail to the Dart Valley company in 1972: steam from Paignton over Goodrington Sands and along the Dart estuary to Kingswear, for the ferry to Dartmouth.

The Dartmouth and Torbay Railway reached Kingswear on 10 August 1864, built to Brunel’s broad gauge and converted to standard gauge in May 1892. It is unusual among Britain’s heritage lines in being run as a commercial business rather than by volunteers: the Dart Valley company sells the train and the ferry across the river to Dartmouth as one trip. Beyond Goodrington the line crosses the viaducts at Hookhills and Broadsands, passes the loop at Churston and runs through Greenway Tunnel down to the Dart estuary.

Stations

1. 0 kmPaignton
2. 1 kmGoodrington Sands
3. 5 kmChurston
4. 6 kmGreenway Halt
5. 11 kmKingswear

The stations OpenStreetMap maps along this line, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Not every train stops at every station.

Along the way

• Goodrington Sands
• Hookhills and Broadsands viaducts
• Churston
• Greenway Tunnel
• The Dart estuary
• Kingswear, for the ferry to Dartmouth

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 452942: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
• Wikipedia has an article for this line

Questions and answers

How long is the Dartmouth Steam Railway?

The Dartmouth Steam Railway runs 11 km from Paignton to Kingswear.

How long does the Dartmouth Steam Railway take?

The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 30 min for the 11 km. That is an average of 22 km/h end to end.

Who runs the Dartmouth Steam Railway?

Dart Valley Railway, with heritage GWR steam.

How old is the Dartmouth Steam Railway?

The line has been in service since 1864. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.

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