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* This 10.5 mile line was built on the track-bed of the defunct [[Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway]] and ran from Yelverton on to Dartmoor. <ref>Encyclopedia of British Railway Companies by Christopher Awdry. Published 1990</ref> | * This 10.5 mile line was built on the track-bed of the defunct [[Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway]] and ran from Yelverton on to Dartmoor. <ref>Encyclopedia of British Railway Companies by Christopher Awdry. Published 1990</ref> | ||
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of Paddington Station, London
- This 10.5 mile line was built on the track-bed of the defunct Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway and ran from Yelverton on to Dartmoor. [1]
- 1878 The company was incorporated.
- 1883 The line, 10.25 miles long, was opened in August and is to be worked in perpetuity by the Great Western Railway. [2]
- 1923 Became part of the Great Western Railway. [3]