Newton Abbot to Totnes
A southbound HST is seen departing from Newton Abbot on 3rd January 1987. The station was resignalled about three months
later and the gantry has been preserved at a near-by industrial estate.
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50 030 is seen departing from Newton Abbot station with a southbound train on 26 July 1986.
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The gantry at Aller Junction gives the all-clear for this HST to take the Paignton line on 3rd January 1987.
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Aller Junction is situated one mile south of Newton Abbot. In this view, taken on 7 Feburary 1987, the branch
from Paignton can be seen on the left,
while an Inter-City livered class 47 is seen approaching with a northbound train from the Plymouth direction. All pointwork
was removed from this location during the resignalling scheme of 1987.
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50 016 is seen heading south, having just taken the Plymouth line at Aller Junction on 3rd January 1987.
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50 024 is seen emerging from Dainton tunnel with a southbound train on 2nd Feburary 1987.
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50 013 powers through the centre-road at Totnes on 20 September 1986.
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The next southbound train was this one, headed by 50 041, seen just pulling into the station. I caught this train to
Plymouth in order to take a trip up the the Gunnislake branch.
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