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4 unusual facts about Dartmoor Railway


British Rail Class 411

It was moved in May 2008 from the Dartmoor Railway to the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway until August 2013, immediately prior to that railway's closure pending re-organisation.

The 3 Cep unit, no. 1198, was withdrawn at the end of December 2004, and was preserved by the EMU Preservation Society on the Dartmoor Railway before moving in 2008 to the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway and then in 2013 to the Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway.

British Rail Class 421

Since then 76818 has been undergoing major works at Eastleigh, while the other DTC and TSO were to feature in the film 'Lost Passenger' before returning to Dartmoor Railway

Dartmoor Railway


The service consists of five return trips between St James Park station in Exeter and Okehampton.



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Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway

However in fact he converted an existing leat into a canal, the Cann Quarry Canal from his quarry to near Marsh Mills, and the Plymouth & Dartmoor Railway built a half-mile branch from near Crabtree to a basin on the canal.