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    New era as Dartmoor Railway moves from heritage to main line

    Apr 13, 2021 4 minutes
    By Robin Jones
    NETWORK RAIL
    ROBIN JONES

    THE Dartmoor Railway Supporters’ Association (DRSA) has expressed its delight at the £40.5 million Government grant to finance the reinstatement of regular main line services between Okehampton and Exeter.

    The 15½-mile single-track route between Coleford Junction west of Crediton and Meldon Quarry is a surviving remnant of the Southern Railway’s Exeter-Tavistock-Plymouth main line owned by quarry operator Aggregate Industries Ltd, and previously ran as the Dartmoor Railway, a heritage line formed in 1977.

    Both the Dartmoor and Weardale railways were taken over by Ealing Community Transport (ECT), a London-based social enterprise founded in 1979. When ECT

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