Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,357 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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1865 The first section of the Devon and Cornwall Railway, to North Tawton, was opened in 1865
1868 Engineer is W. R. Galbraith.[1]
1889 Engineer is W. R. Galbraith.[2]
The London and South Western Railway Company arrived at Lydford, on the western fringes of Dartmoor, in October 1874, having absorbed the Devon and Cornwall Railway Company. The principal aim of the line was Plymouth and the dockyards at Devonport.
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