Fact Sheet # 3 - 31 December 1851

Date

Section of line

Broad

Mixed

1 Jan 1847Total mileage298m 13cnil
1 Jul 1847Yatton - Clevedon1 3m 45c 
1 Oct 1847Gloucester - Cheltenham 2m 2c 3m 11c
1 Dec 1847Reading - Hungerford22m 23c 
5 May 1848Totnes - Laira Green621m 16c 
12 Jun 1848Tiverton Road - Tiverton1 4m 60c 
5 Sep 1848Thingley Junction - Westbury213m 54c 
1 Nov 1848Southcot Junction - Basingstoke13m 49c 
18 Dec 1848Newton - Torquay6 5m 1c 
2 Apr 1849Laira Green - Plymouth6 2m 64c 
8 Oct 1849Slough - Windsor 5m 15c 
18 Jun 1850Chepstow - Landore - Swansea374m 53c 
2 Sep 1850Oxford - Banbury24m 15c 
7 Oct 1850Westbury - Frome 5m 61c 
12 May 1851Exeter - Crediton5 5m 60c 
9 Sep 1851Westbury - Warminster 4m 73c 
19 Sep 1851Gloucester - Grange Court 7m 36c 
19 Sep 1851Chepstow - Grange Court318m 70c 
24 Sep 1851Neath Junction - Aberdare419m 0c 
31 Dec 1851Total mileage552m 70c 3m 11c
Metric conversion: 80 chains = 1 mile; 5 miles = 8 kilometres
Note 1:Bristol & Exeter Railway  
Note 2:Wilts, Somerset & Weymouth Railway  
Note 3:South Wales Railway  
Note 4:Vale of Neath Railway  
Note 5:Exeter & Crediton Railway  
Note 6:South Devon Railway  
 
 

Locomotive Class

No. (+/-)

Total

1 Jan 1847Total locomotives127 
 Star 2-2-2  12
 Fire Fly 2-2-2  62
 Sun 2-2-2  21
 Leo 2-4-0  18
 Hercules 0-6-0   4
 Great Western 4-2-2   1
 Prince 2-2-2+ 6  6
 Iron Duke 4-2-2+22 22
 Avalanche 0-6-0T+ 1  1
 Premier 0-6-0+12 12
 Pyracmon 0-6-0+ 6  6
 Bacchus 0-6-0+ 1  1
 Bogie 4-4-0T+ 2  2
 B&ER 4-2-2+20 20
 B&ER 0-6-0+ 8  8
 B&ER railcar+ 1  1
 B&ER 2-2-2T+ 5  5
 VofNR 4-4-0T+ 6  6
 SDR 4-4-0T+ 4  4
 Unclassified engines- 1  8
31 Dec 1851Total locomotives+93220
Key:B&ER - Bristol & Exeter Railway
VofNR - Vale of Neath Railway
SDR - South Devon Railway