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The Dartmoor Line was part of the London and South Western Railway's plan to extend the Devon and Cornwall Railway to break the monopoly of the broad guage Great Western Railway with the prize of Plymouth and the Devonport Dockyard. Having reached Exeter in 1860, it leased the Exeter & Crediton and the Taw Valley Railways two years later, laying a third rail for standard guage trains.

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1859.Apr.11		First train passes over the Royal Albert Bridge from Plymouth to Truro
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1859.May.03		Brunel\'s Royal Albert Bridge linking Saltash in Cornwall to Plymouth in Devon opened by Prince Albert
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1859.Sep.15		Death of English engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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1860		London and South Western Railway reaches Exeter
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1862		Okehampton Railway Act authorises the Okehampton Railway Company and railway line from Colebrook to Okehampton
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1862		London and South Western Railway leases Exeter and Crediton and the Taw Valley Railways
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1865		The Dartmoor Railway opens to North Tawton
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1867		The Dartmoor Railway reaches Sandford Courtenay
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1871		The Dartmoor Railway reaches Okehampton
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1898		LSWR line reaches Bude
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1948		Southern Railway becomes the Southern Region of the nationalised British Railways
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1963		Former Southern Railways lines to the west of Exeter transfered to the Western Region of British Railways
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