Devon and Cornwall is littered with the remains of its once thriving locomotive past - with scores of abandoned railway lines overgrowing with weeds. Just over a year ago, the Government announced ...

Bruce Duncan, chair of the Salisbury to Exeter Rail Users Group, said "it's really about is there going to be change?" Rail users in the South West say they will be watching "with interest" to see ...

The new rail depot facility in Exeter. Credit: Great Western Railways. Construction contractor Hochtief (UK) has secured a deal to build Great Western Railway’s (GWR) new rail maintenance depot in ...

A section of railway line in Devon is scheduled to close for two weeks in November for maintenance. Honiton Tunnel between Axminster and Exeter will have its 50-year-old track replaced and new ...

An inquest has opened into the death of a senior lecturer from Devon who was struck by a train. David Mark Richards, from Exeter, died on December 4, the coroner has said. Emergency services were ...

It is 50 years ago next month that the axe came down on the Southern Railway route from Plymouth to Exeter via Tavistock and Okehampton. The Labour Government, elected in 1964, promised to halt the ...

The founder of Penguin Books, Sir Allen Lane, was yesterday (10th May) commemorated with an "orange plaque" at Exeter St David’s railway station - the same station where he conceived the sixpenny ...