The North Devon Line
The Tarka Line - Barnstaple to Exeter, Devon, England - the mid 1980`s
SITE 1: CLICK HERE TO ENTER 200MB PHOTOGRAPHIC SITE
SITE 2: David Vinsen, who used to work for British Rail, now of Network Rail spent many years down here by the "withered arm." Ranging all along the Exeter to Barnstaple line, the Exeter/Crediton to Okehampton and Meldon Quarry line and the Barnstaple to Torrington/Meeth/Instow line, he recorded a way of life, a way of work, the way of a railway intimate among the country and communities it served & above all the people; 100s & 100s of great photos of stations, tracks & signal boxes, railmen at work, maybe at play, the people of the line, the blood of the line - it is all HERE
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Turning the pages of history above & below the waves
another "content over style" heritage web site from Steve Johnson`s "Cyberheritage"
PLUS: the sea wall at Dawlish and Teignmouth, Horsecove, the Devon Banks, Dainton Tunnel, Plymouth, Brunel`s Royal Albert Bridge, Newquay, Cornish China Clay workings, Par, Lostwithiel - Class 33, 37, 45, 47, and many 50`s, DMU`s -Topsham, Paignton, Maiden Newton, York, Manchester, trains through the streets and by cars in Weymouth, London, Edinburgh, Grange-over-Sands - and more - all 1980`s
............and oldies of green DMU`s and Westerns! ............and a trip to Braunton and Ilfracombe