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Yeovil to Exeter Line (London and South Western Railway)

Dates

21/07/1856	Yeovil to Exeter Line (London and South Western Railway) Act for Yeovil to Exeter Line passed.
19/07/1860	Yeovil to Exeter Line (London and South Western Railway) Line opened.
23/06/2011	Yeovil to Exeter Line (London and South Western Railway) Completion of improvements to Honiton station.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

Yeovil Junction

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The steam era water tank at Yeovil Junction still survives (see image 59836). I believe it is strategically convenient for topping up steam ...
Ken Strachan 27/08/2022

A view east along platform 2 at Yeovil Junction in October 2014. This is an island platform with platform 1 out of view to the left, ...
John McIntyre 20/10/2014

Looking East at dusk at Yeovil Junction in August 2022. ...
Ken Strachan 27/08/2022

Yeovil Junction, seen on 30th May 2017. This is the busier of the town's two surviving stations and still has numerous buildings and sidings. ...
Alan Cormack 30/05/2017

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Sutton Bingham

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Crewkerne

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Looking east along the car park at Crewkerne Station on 11 May with the boarded up flat roof signal box seen at the end of the London bound platform, ...
David Pesterfield 11/05/2015

View east at the large and ornate Crewkerne Station on 11 May 2015 see image 51347. The canopy is sited towards the London end of the ...
David Pesterfield 11/05/2015

The disused modernist flat roofed former signal box at Crewkerne, still standing to the rear of the London bound platform in May 2015. See image ...
David Pesterfield 11/05/2015

The architecturally impressive up side main building at Crewkerne, Somerset, looking south from Station Road in May 2015. The station is remote from ...
David Pesterfield 11/05/2015

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Hewish

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Chard Junction

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Chard Railway

Axminster

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Axminster and Lyme Regis Light Railway

The good folk of Axminster were pleased to have 6-coach trains heading to London once an hour. They were less pleased to be unable to travel the other ...
Ken Strachan 15/10/2022

Axminster station from the car park side; with a collection of annexes and outbuildings. The bar on the left looked tempting; but as I had a long way ...
Ken Strachan 15/10/2022

Exterior of Axminster station on 14th June 2014. Just visible on the far left is the new footbridge to the restored up platform. Until 1965, this was ...
David Bosher 14/06/2014

I am becoming seriously concerned about the passenger capacity of rail replacement road vehicles. ...
Ken Strachan 15/10/2022

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Seaton Junction

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Seaton Railway

Derelict buildings on the up platform at the former Seaton Junction station, seen from 159 020 with 159 004 passing with UK Railtours' excursion from ...
David Bosher 28/06/2014

Just to the right of my previous image see image 56609, there is another concrete footbridge; this one is open to public use, and leads to a ...
Ken Strachan 26/08/2016

A few years ago, if I recall correctly, you could walk through a passageway by the 'phone box, and cross the station footbridge. Now both the station ...
Ken Strachan 26/08/2016

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Honiton

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The lovely summer of 1976 with blue skies. Honiton signal box stands proud in the sun. ...
Doug Nicholls /08/1976

SWT 159105, on a Waterloo bound service, pulls away from the Honiton stop on 200715. Platform 2 is only used when trains have to pass here so most ...
Mark Bartlett 20/07/2015

Looking west past Honiton signal box towards Exeter in June 2010. ...
Ewan Crawford 06/06/2010

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Feniton

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Sidmouth Railway

Feniton station, attempting to regress into one of its former identities, with the addition of this presumably unofficial and probably reproduction ...
Douglas Blades 18/07/2017

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Whimple

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Grab shot of Whimple station, from a passing Class 159 on the L&SWR main line heading for Exeter in July 2015.
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Mark Bartlett 29/07/2015

The 13:10 Waterloo to Exeter St. Davids (1V13) rolls through pleasant Devon countryside between Feniton and Whimple, where it was one of the few ...
Bill Jamieson 15/09/1972

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Broad Clyst

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Pinhoe

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Whupton Bridge Halt

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Exmouth Junction Shed

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Drummond M7 0-4-4T 30021 stabled in the shed yard at Exmouth Junction on 19 August 1961. ...
K A Gray 19/08/1961

Drummond M7 0-4-4T 30048 on Exmouth Junction shed in the summer of 1961. ...
K A Gray 18/08/1961

Drummond M7 0-4-4T no 30676 stands in the shed yard at Exmouth Junction on a wet 10 August 1960, approximately one year before withdrawal. ...
K A Gray 20/08/1960

Scene on shed at Exmouth Junction in August 1961, with Bulleid Merchant Navy Pacific no 35003 Royal Mail. ...
K A Gray 18/08/1961

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Exmouth Junction

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Exeter and Exmouth Railway

Mount Pleasant Road Halt

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St James Park

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Exeter Central

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Looking east over the long platform at Exeter Central, a Paignton to Exmouth service is seen calling on on 29th July 2015. The two car Pacer seems ...
Mark Bartlett 29/07/2015

Contary to popular rumour, digital signage (notice the pointed finger at the lower centre of the sign) was an integral part of Victorian railways. ...
Ken Strachan 15/04/2017

The street entrance to Central station offers a warm welcome on a spring evening. Notice the electric bikes in the foreground. ...
Ken Strachan 15/04/2017