Great Western Railway and CrossCountry Trains at Paignton and Torquay on August 17th 2019

1st time filming at Paignton and Torquay stations on the Torbay and Riviera Lines plus at Paignton featuring a appearance of a Dartmouth Railway for services to Kingswear including steam loco '75014 'Braveheart'
Paignton provides interchange with the Dartmouth Steam Railway where the line to Kingswear was sold in 1972 by BR.
The line from Torquay was doubled in 1910. The station building demolished in 1993 when the booking office was moved onto the site of the former goods shed.
South West Trains from December 2004 to December 2009 ran a pair of return services from London Waterloo however since then services were cut back to Exeter St Davids however now run by South Western Railway.
CrossCountry Trains provide services from Bristol Temple Meads, Birmingham New Street and Manchester Piccadilly
The services to London Paddington nowadays run by Class 800 or 802 IETs having taken over from the HSTs. Although occasional HSTs still operate however now known as Castle HSTs operate other services to Penzance, Taunton, Bristol Temple Meads and Cardiff Central with the occasional weekday service from Paignton running direct to Cardiff Central
The Class 143 Pacers days in service on GWR are numbered with Class 150s and 158s mostly taking over the Devon Branches.
Torquay’s station of today opened in 1859 is not far from the sea at Torre Abbey Sands is served by CrossCountry Services and Great Western Railway services from Paddington call here in particular in the busier summer months.
Filming on Saturday August 17th 2019 on iPhone 8 and edited on iMovie

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