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One of the smaller companies taken over by the Southern Railway
at the time of the grouping was the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western
Junction Railway. The company had been formed in 1883 to construct a railway
from Lydford to Devonport, on a route via Tavistock, Bere Alston and St Budeaux.
Work started in March 1887 and the railway opened to traffic on 2 June 1890.
The PD&SWJR consisted of a double track line about 22½ miles long and served not only the existing LSWR stations at Lydford and Devonport, but new stations were built at Brentor, Tavistock, Bere Alston, Bere Ferrers, St Budeaux, Ford and Tamerton Foliot. From the outset the new line was leased to the LSWR which gave the LSWR an independent access to Plymouth avoiding the GWR Tavistock branch line. A branch from Bere Alston to Callington opened on 2nd March 1908 using the new Bere Alston and Calstock Light Railway, and the East Cornwall Mineral Railway which was re-gauged from 3' 6" to 4' 8½". The branch was engineered under the supervision of Colonel Stephens of Kent and East Sussex fame, and was operated independently and not by the LSWR. For this extension three steam locomotives were purchased from Hawthorn Leslie and Company. The new locomotives' livery was blue with brass dome covers and chimney caps and they were named after the company's directors. The two 0-6-2Ts were named Lord St Leven and Earl of Mount Edgecumbe and the 0-6-0T was named A S Harris. The LSWR actually absorbed the PD&SWJR just prior to the grouping and Numbers 3 to 5 were repainted in LSWR sage green livery and re-numbered N°756 to N°758. |
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Driving Wheel: Cylinders (2): Boiler Pressure: |
4 ft 0½ ins (N°756 3 ft 10 in) 16 in x 24 in (N°756 14 in x 22 in) 170 lb sq in |
PD&SWJR N° | Name; | LSWR/SR N° | BR N° | Wheel Arrangement | Withdrawn |
3 4 5 |
A S Harris Earle of Mount Edgecumbe Lord St Leven |
756 757 758 |
- 30757 30758 |
0-6-0T 0-6-2T 0-6-2T |
August 1951 December 1957 December 1956 |
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