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Dawlish Avoiding Line
The Dawlish Avoiding Line was a proposed 1930s railway development scheme for the Great Western Railway's Exeter to Plymouth Line, which if implemented would have provided an alternative to the existing mainline route along the South Devon Railway sea wall.〔〔
==Background==
The South Devon Railway Company commissioned Isambard Kingdom Brunel to develop its route between to .〔 Having physically surveyed all route options, based on the reason of the substantial cost savings against tunnelling through the steep South Devon hills, Brunel proposed a route that followed the coastline created through a combination of dynamite and quarrying, and where necessary through the construction of a suitable seawall.〔
The broad gauge railway of gauge opened on 30 May 1846, designed to be worked as an atmospheric railway.〔 Atmospheric trains only ran from 13 September 1847 until 9 September 1848, and the line was extended to on 31 December 1846.〔
The South Devon Railway was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway (GWR) on 1 February 1876, and the gauge converted to the after 20 May 1892. A station was opened to serve in 1905, all the other stations on the sea wall having opened with the line in 1846.〔
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