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Bickington Steam Railway
SR&RL 2-6-2 No. 24 'Sandy River' at Trago Mills Central station.
Overview
Owner
Trago Mills
Termini
Trago Central (Fun Park)
Riverside Station (Car Park)
Stations
3
Service
Services
Goose Glen Halt (Additional Car Park)
Operator(s)
Trago Mills
History
Opened
1988
Technical
Line length
2 mi (3.2 km)
Track length
2.5 mi (4.0 km)
Track gauge
10+1⁄4 in (260 mm)
Located at Trago Mills Regional Shopping Centre, Newton Abbot, the 10+1⁄4 in (260 mm) ridable miniature railway Bickington Steam Railway was opened in 1988, using equipment recovered from the Suffolk Wildlife Park, which itself was taken from Rudyard Lake.[1]
Centre, Newton Abbot, the 10+1⁄4 in (260 mm) ridable miniature railwayBickingtonSteamRailway was opened in 1988, using equipment recovered from the Suffolk...
models of full-sized railway locomotives (powered by diesel or petrol engines, live steam or electric motors). Typically miniature railways have a rail track...
covers over 100 acres (0.40 km2). Its features are: BickingtonSteamRailway, a 10¼-inch gauge railway that runs from the centre of the leisure park to the...
"Stately Home Railway" here, in 1964. It featured the miniature steam locomotive 'Blanche of Lancaster' which is now at the BickingtonSteamRailway, Trago Mills...
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British narrow gauge railways Lea Bailey Light Railway Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alan Keef. http://test.whr.co.uk/stock/steam/baldwin-794 Archived...
home of the South Devon Railway locomotive works. This later became a major steam engine shed, retained to service British Railways diesel locomotives until...
early steam engine; Thomas Newcomen from Dartmouth made another early steam engine in 1710. Edward Butler, a farmer from Devon born in Bickington in 1862...
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