South Devon Railway Company
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south-devon-railway-company-171-18728168
title:
South Devon Railway Company
text:
The South Devon Railway Company built and operated the railway from Exeter to Plymouth and Torquay in Devon, England. It was a 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge railway built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The line had to traverse difficult hilly terrain, and the company adopted the atmospheric system in which trains were drawn by a piston in a tube laid between the rails, a vacuum being created by stationary engines. The revolutionary system proved to have insuperable technical difficulties and w
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United Kingdom legislation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Devon_Railway_Company
date created:
2006-12-18T01:03:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T20:06:07Z
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