An old covered freight van forms the waiting room at Greenway Halt (opened in 2012) on the Dartmouth Steam Railway, Devon
The Dartmouth and Torbay Railway opened in stages between 1859 and 1864 and ran from Torquay (now Torre) via Paignton, Goodrington (opened in 1928) and Churston (originally Brixham Road) to Kingswear, for a ferry to Dartmouth. A branch line was added to the important fishing town of Brixham, from Churston, in 1868. The line became part of the Great Western Railway in 1876 and later the Western Region of British Railways in 1948. The line was rationalised in the 1960s, which included a general reduction of services, the removal of Sunday services and the closure of the Brixham Branch (in 1963). The whole line south of Paignton was originally cited for closure in the late 1960s but was instead sold for heritage operation in 1972; it is now operated as the Dartmouth Steam Railway. An new unmanned halt was opened in 2012, named Greenway Halt, just north of the 465 yard Greenway Tunnel to allow visitors better access to the Greenway Estate, the former home of Agatha Christie, which is owned by the National Trust.
Size: 5222px × 3481px
Location: Greenway Halt, Devon, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © Clive Jones / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
Keywords: dartmouth, devon, devonshire, england, estate, freight, greenway, halt, heritage, house, kingdom, landscape, national, railway, rural, scenic, station, steam, summer, sun, trust, uk, united, vintage, wagon
