New additions to railway collection - Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life

By: Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life
Added: 17 July 2013

Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon is delighted to announce four significant additions to its local railway display.

Tiverton Museum is well known for its much loved 1935 built GWR Loco 1442 ‘The Tivvy Bumper’, as well as its extensive collection of railwayana from the iconic Culm Valley and Exe Valley Branches closed by the Beeching Axe fifty years ago.

From the Culm Valley comes HEMYOCK EAST GROUND FRAME and the GWR half harp gas lamp that hung over the booking office at Uffculme Station.

Another cast iron sign TIVERTON JUNCTION BOX comes from the signal box which formerly controlled the junction of the West of England main line, Culm Valley and Tiverton branches.   

Exe Valley services ran from Exeter St David’s via Tiverton to Dulverton on the Taunton-Barnstaple line where valley trains had their own platform. From the Down platform comes the sign that hung under the footbridge ‘To THE EXE VALLEY TRAIN’