翻訳と辞書 |
Southern Railway routes west of Salisbury : ウィキペディア英語版 | Southern Railway routes west of Salisbury
This article describes the history and operation of the railway routes west of Salisbury built by the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) and allied companies, which ultimately became part of the Southern Railway in the United Kingdom. Salisbury forms a natural boundary between the Southern Railway core routes in the counties surrounding London, and the long route connecting with the Devon and Cornwall lines. ==Network== The routes within the scope of this article spring westward from Salisbury. Salisbury was reached from Waterloo station in London, 84 miles away. From Salisbury the main line continued broadly west, passing no major population centre until reaching Exeter. The difficult terrain, with numerous hills and valleys crossing the direction of the route, made selection of the alignment difficult, and several medium-sized towns were passed at a distance of a few miles. Many of these towns had to accept a horse omnibus connection from a remote station on the main line, and some of them—Yeovil, Chard, Lyme Regis, Seaton, Sidmouth and Exmouth—eventually had their own branch line. At Exeter, the LSWR had its own station, Queen Street, more conveniently situated than the St Davids station of the Bristol & Exeter Railway (B&ER), but its elevated location made onward extension into west Devon difficult. When it eventually did so, it descended by a steep and curved connection into the B&ER station, running a few miles northward on that line and then diverging to the west, to Crediton. The line onward led into several main line branches—to Barnstaple and Bideford (and later Ilfracombe) -- to Halwill and Holsworthy, with Halwill itself becoming a junction later—and to Plymouth, reached at first over part of the route of the rival broad gauge interest.〔Derek Phillips and George Pryer, ''The Salisbury to Exeter Line'', Oxford Publishing Company, Sparkford, 1997, ISBN 0 86093 525 6〕〔R A Williams, ''The London & South Western Railway: Volume 2: Growth and Consolidation'', David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1973, ISBN 07153 5940 1〕〔Derek Phillips, ''From Salisbury to Exeter -- the Branch Lines'', Oxford Publishing Company, 2000, ISBN 0 86093 546 9〕
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Southern Railway routes west of Salisbury」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|