The Turnchapel Branch was a London and South Western Railway (LSWR) single track branch railway line in Devon, England, that ran from Plymouth Friary...
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powers in 1882 and the branches were from the LSWR Friary line. On 2 August 1883 the P&DR obtained powers to build a line to Turnchapel; it succeeded in building...
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Plymstock (redirect from Turnchapel)
Elburton, Goosewell, Hooe, Mount Batten, Oreston, Pomphlett, Staddiscombe, Turnchapel and Plymstock proper, the centrally located village after which the parish...
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(nominally P&DR) Turnchapel Branch to cross the Laira by Laira Bridge. At Plymstock the Yealmpton branch diverged east from the Turnchapel line, the passenger...
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Bournemouth and Plymouth Friary (for use on Cattedown Wharfs and the Turnchapel branch). In November 1892 the LSWR purchased the Southampton Docks, and so...
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opened on 1 July 1891. A branch across the River Plym to Plymstock opened on 5 September 1892 and was extended to Turnchapel on 1 January 1897. The broad...
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Turnchapel railway station served the suburb of Turnchapel, Plymouth, England from 1897 to 1961 on the Turnchapel Branch. The station opened on 1 January...
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of the estuary are the remains of the old Turnchapel Branch swing bridge used for trains to access Turnchapel from the Oreston side from 1897. It was closed...
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Railway. Blandford Forum: Oakwood Press. Kingdom, Athony R. (1982). The Turnchapel Branch. Poole: Oxford Publishing Company. ISBNÂ 0-86093-181-1. Cooke, R.A...
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Lydford railway station, then over the Great Western Railway's Launceston branch via Tavistock and the South Devon main line to Mutley railway station, and...
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