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Lyme Regis c1958
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Lyme Regis c1958

Photo of the Lyme Regis Railway Station as it was c1958. See picture #1002 for more info.


Photo © The Step Back Through Time Collection
Picture added on 27 December 2009
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Step back through Time, trains and stations
Comments:
David St John Thomas, writing in 1960, stated: 'Road competition has been felt seriously - Lyme station is perched awkwardly above the town ..' * The single carriage attached to the locomotive suggests few passengers for the junction with the Waterloo-Exeter line at Axminster. There was only one intermediate stop, at Combpyne. The locomotive is almost certainly one of Adams Class 0415 4-4-2Ts - three survived to work the branch: 30582-4, and built circa 1882 they were in existence some years before the line opened in 1903. 30584 was the first to be withdrawn, circa 1961. They proved ideal for the route, which abounded with sharp curves.
* Source: David St John Thomas. A Regional History of thye Railways of Great Britain. Volume 1. The West Country. Phoenix House, 1960
Added by Martin Bodman on 27 January 2010
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