Kingswear railway station

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Kingswear railway station is the terminus of the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, a heritage railway in Devon, United Kingdom. It is situated in the centre of Kingswear, on the shores of the River Dart opposite Dartmouth.

The station has level access to the street and is adjacent to a passenger ferry to Dartmouth.

The station is covered by a wooden train shed.

[edit] History

The railway to Kingswear was built by the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway, opening on 16 August 1864. The original aim had been to reach Dartmouth but the railway station in that town, which sold train tickets and processed parcels, lacking only platforms and trains, was only ever reached by ferry.

Goods trains were run to Kingswear from 2 April 1866 and these proved to be of great importance, not just in shipping goods out by sea, but also in carrying coal landed at Kingswear to the gas works at Preston between Paignton and Torquay.

The Dartmouth and Torbay Railway was always operated by the South Devon Railway and was amalgamated with it on 1 January 1872. This was only short lived as the South Devon Railway was in turn amalgamated into the Great Western Railway on 1 February 1876, which in turn was nationalised into British Railways in 1948. On 30 December 1972, the line was sold to the Dart Valley Railway, which operated a nearby heritage railway at Buckfastleigh.

[edit] Further reading

Potts, C.R., The Newton Abbot to Kingswear Railway (1844-1988), Oakwood Press 1988, ISBN 0-85361-387-7

Preceding station	Heritage railways	Next station
Churston	Paington and Dartmouth Steam Railway	Terminus

This station offers access to the South West Coast Path.
Distance to Coast Path	0 yards
Next station anticlockwise	Churston 12 miles
Next station clockwise	Plymouth 65 miles