THE Dartmoor Line – which was once used as a heritage railway and reopened to regular passengers on November 20, 2021 – has passed the landmark figure of 250,000 carried in its first year, doubling all expectations.
The previously mothballed surviving section of the LSWR Exeter to Plymouth line, which links Okehampton to Exeter, was restored in just nine months and delivered £10 million under budget, becoming the first former line to reopen under the Government’s £500 million
