The old Dartmouth Station building
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The photograph on this page of The old Dartmouth Station building by Bob Walters as part of the Geograph project.
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The old Dartmouth Station building
Image: © Bob Walters Taken: 30 Jun 2016
This is the station that never saw a train. The Dartmouth Station was built by Brunel as part of the railway line from Newton Abbott to Dartmouth. Unfortunately a bridge across the Dart Estuary was required to reach the station, but the Admiralty vetoed this. Brunel had to settle for a station across the water at Kingswear and a ferry to Dartmouth, but the station was still built on Dartmouth Quay. The Great Western Railway owned the line, ferry boat and station, a situation which exists today with the line from Paignton and ferry boat owned and run by the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway.
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Image Location
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50.349285
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-3.577527