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And tonight 1V58 was 2x 4 car

This is not strictly true. If only 1 Train Manager then you are correct, but if a caterer is also provided they are in the front portion and the double set can run

To be fair, not you bad. It was a convoluted arrangement. I dont know but did hear unofficially that the line was purchased on 1st February

The line was owned by Aggregate Industries. Iowa Pacific Holdings under the brand Devon and Cornwall Railways merely leased the line

Well in Summer 2014, the Network Rail West of Exeter resilience Study, stated the cost of an all singing, all dancing dual track Northern Route complete with brand new Meldon viaduct was £875m. If you google West of Exeter Route Resilience Study (networkrail.co.uk) it will come up There were...

First of all. It is Okehampton, not Oakhampton. Residents get quite annoyed by that as Okehampton is named after the river Okement! You are correct that the emergency connection was only ever single track. The SR had its own way into Plymouth built by the grandiosely named Plymouth, Devonport &...

I don't refute your logic in any way with Bere Alston. When I personally calculated possible speeds, the curvature slows the speed, as does the fact a platform is there. I got the equation from a friend of mine at Network Rail. Max non stop speed through Bere Alston in theory is 50 mph. Better...

True. The same West of England report showed a non stop speed of 49 minutes via Dawlish and I have travelled between Plymouth and Exeter on a non stop Voyager in that time. 4 minutes less than via Okehampton. The current route is the quickest but my point is there is not much in it Of course...

True. But the 90 minutes quoted up the thread is also too slow. The longest straight in Devon is on this line and despite a check of 60mph through Crediton and Coleford (due to 20 chain curve) unless Coleford realigned. The line between Sampford Courtenay and Exeter St Davids is capable of this...

53 minutes non stop

Just a quick point, it is not 9 miles longer at all. Its half of that but with potentially higher ruling speeds. Network Rail 'West of Exeter' study compared times on current route non stop between Exeter and Plymouth as 49 minutes for a Voyager and Northern route was 53 minutes. Fastest...

Indeed. If this is true 2 problems are solved. Central served, albeit with not every train and through trains to London

The newly renovated one is primarily for care of the GWR sleeper service

A just stands for Airline style seat. Simple as that

The LSWR line was in fact used some 9 months after it closed. On 19th/20th February 1969 the line had a snow plough pass over it and a freight train ran on the 20th from Plymouth to Exeter. Zealous was the loco and it failed. The crew had to go to a house to seek help and the occupants could...