Brixham Branch: New Edition

This second enlarged edition has expanded to 176 pages, plus 116 photographs and plans and timetables. The majority of the photographs are new to this edition. The book is to A5 format and is printed on art paper throughout with a colour laminated card cover. Built and financed by Richard Wolston, a Brixham solicitor, the Torbay & Brixham Railway opened in 1868 and was from the beginning worked by the South Devon Railway which had its headquarters in Plymouth. In 1870 Richard Wolston was declared insolvent, the cost of giving Brixham its railway having broken him financially. After the GWR took over the South Devon in 1876, the T&B became truly independent, but it was a struggle to survive and in 1883 the GWR bought it for a bargain price, far less than it had cost to build.