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"Devon honoured to receive Railfuture award" - Councillor Andrea Davis, Cabinet Member for Climate Change, Environment and Transport, who received the award presented by Hon. President Christian Wolmar, said: "This award is an unexpected honour and an incredible achievement for the County Council. It’s extremely pleasing to know that effort has been recognised by Railfuture and we thank them for this award."
Click here for Railfuture and other regional and national events, also key campaign dates and conferences.
Our most active and, in 2022 and 2023, award-winning current campaign - across Mid-Devon, North Devon and into Torridge - is for a modernised and extended North Devon (Tarka) Line, the Atlantic Coast - Exeter Railway (aka ACE Rail) for twice-hourly and faster services to and from Exeter Central. Railfuture is one of the early founders, in December 2023, of the growing Northern Devon Railway Development Alliance.
See TavyRail - A group including rail professionals, academics & stakeholders focused on providing objective information for the Northern and Southern Dartmoor Rail Route debate.
The TavyRail / Peninsula Rail Group stall (R: Chair Richard Searight) at Tavistock EcoFest on 29th July 2023.
The Honiton diversionary route was needed when the Exeter to Taunton railway was closed for 3 days at Cowley Bridge Junction, from Tuesday 12th June 2018, for the installation of 24 hollow concrete rectangular culvert structures.
The Honiton line would have been useful again from 18 February to 8 March 2019 when the railway was closed between Taunton and Tiverton Parkway for maintenance work at Whiteball Tunnel. Only a 2-hourly diversionary service can currently be added to the normal hourly Exeter to London Waterloo service.
See also the Railfuture-affiliated Salisbury-Exeter Rail Users Group. Details of their most recent AGM, in Sherborne on 25 October 2023, are here, and their briefing note for the Devon & Cornwall branch online AGM on 30 September 2023 is here.
Their launch newsletter in 2015 is here and a presentation to Railfuture's national conference in Carlisle in 2018, using SERUG as a positive case study, is here.
Rail journeys between Devon and Dorset can take many more hours than those by road. Our priority is improved connections from Exeter to Dorchester and Weymouth, both via Castle Cary and the Yeovil Junction to Yeovil Pen Mill link.
On 8th February 2014 both lines to Taunton from the east were closed by flooding whilst Whiteball Tunnel was already closed for maintenance, and the South-Western line to Exeter was closed by a landslip at Crewkerne, leaving Exeter and Taunton totally isolated. This had the effect of cutting off Cornwall and half of Devon from the rest of the UK railway network. The lines to Exeter reopened, and the line at Dawlish was repaired and re-opened on 4th April 2014.
However the economy of the South-West cannot afford to be cut off for long periods of time again in future. Railfuture are campaigning for a resilient rail network in the south west which will also support economic growth. We therefore welcome the flood resilience works being undertaken at Hele by the River Culm, on the Exeter-Bristol route about 4 miles south of the new station for Cullompton. Click Dawlish to find out more about our campaign for an additional route and faster journey times, and register your support.
Tavistock is overdue a new station at the end of a reinstated link with Plymouth, via Bere Alston, its prospects recently revived and in November 2022 given a further boost with submission by Devon CC of the latest Strategic Outline Business Case, part-funded by the DfT from its Restoring Your Railway fund. On 4 October 2023 the local MP The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Cox KC received a re-assuring letter from Rail Minister Huw Merriman.
Okehampton Interchange (previously referred to as Okehampton East, Okehampton Parkway, and most recently West Devon Transport Hub) is seen as part of Devon Metro. In May 2022 Devon County Council announced that Okehampton Parkway station is part of a £92million bid to the Levelling-Up Fund second round, with results expected in early-2023. On 18 January the Department for Levelling-Up, Housing & Communities announced the winners which include "£13.5 million for a new railway station on the eastern edge of Okehampton - the West Devon Transport Hub - complete with high quality cycle facilities and EV charging points on site to better connect communities and promote active travel." See also "Network Rail welcomes new funding in rail for the south west" and "Millions awarded to transform transport links in the South West." See Okehampton Interchange, opening in Spring 2026. On 13 May 2024 the new station name was confirmed. On 12 June 2024 Devon County Council's Cabinet approved the £15m new station to be built at Okehampton Business Park, accepting the financial risk.
CAUTION: On Monday 29th July 2024 the new Chancellor of the Exchequer made an oral statement in the House of Commons on Public Spending: Inheritance and in particular said this: "The previous government also made a series of commitments on transport. The spending audit has revealed nearly £800m of unfunded transport projects that have been committed next year. So my RHF the Transport Secretary will undertake a thorough review of all these commitments. As part of that work, she has agreed not to move forwards with projects that the previous government refused to publicly cancel, despite knowing full well they were unaffordable. … and my RHF will also cancel projects in the “Restoring our Railways” programme which have not yet commenced.
For completeness, the full passage from Hansard (column 1037) is this:
"The previous Government also made a series of commitments on transport, promises that people expected to be delivered and promises that many Members across this House campaigned on in good faith, but the Conservative party has failed them. We have seen from the National Audit Office the chaos that the previous Government presided over, with projects over budget and delayed again and again. The spending audit has revealed £1 billion of unfunded transport projects that have been committed to next year, so my right hon. Friend the Transport Secretary will undertake a thorough review of these commitments. As part of that work, she has agreed not to move forwards with projects that the previous Government refused to publicly cancel, despite knowing full well that they were unaffordable. That includes proposed work on the A303 and the A27, and my right hon. Friend will also cancel the restoring your railway programme, saving £85 million next year, with individual projects to be assessed through her review. If we cannot afford it, we cannot do it."
As round 3 of the New Stations Fund was part of the Restoring Your Railway programme, there is also a dark cloud hanging over the fate of at least some of the stations which it and subsequent government announcements supported with funding, until the results of the Transport Secretary's review are known.
Other station re-openings on existing lines (and suggested by Railfuture Devon and Cornwall) include Plympton between Plymouth and Ivybridge (maybe a later increment to the Tavistock extension), Monkerton on the Exmouth line between Polsloe Bridge and Digby & Sowton (referenced in the autumn 2024 consultation on Local Transport Plan 4 for 2025-40); also Pool between Camborne and Redruth, and Kingskerswell between Torre and Newton Abbot.
Connecting Communities: framework assessment of new station opportunities on Western Route - a Network Rail Wales & Western Region report, first published in July 2024, re-published with minor corrections in November 2024. Five Case Studies, including Bideford (page 43) and Plympton (page 19).
In addition to eventually reopening the inland Exeter to Plymouth line via Okehampton and Tavistock, Railfuture Devon and Cornwall advocates track-bed protection of some other closed lines where there may be potential for future reopening. These include:
See our latest illustrated one-page branch campaign strategy (April 2024). Much of our campaigning activity aligns with Devon Metro, launched in April 2011 as part of the County Council's Local Transport Plan 3 for 2011-26.
Regular passenger trains returned to the Exeter to Okehampton route on Saturday 20th November 2021, a gap of 49½ years since the June 1972 closure and 150 years since the original opening of the railway. The new service initially ran about every 2 hours; it became hourly from May 2022, and a bit faster after the track improvements between Coleford Junction, Yeoford and Crediton.
The station serves Exeter's large Marsh Barton industrial estate and also provides good access for walks alongside the River Exe and canal. Parking is limited to only 3 disabled spaces, so this might discourage the station's use by local Alphington residents. See the following links for further background information on the development of Marsh Barton , and works that progressed throughout 2022.
Exeter's new Marsh Barton station the day before opening to the public and one of the Paignton bound services which now stop here.
Other new stations opened in 2015 at Newcourt (June) on the Avocet line to Exmouth and at Cranbrook (December) on the line to Axminster, Yeovil and Salisbury. These are key elements of the Devon Metro concept, part of Devon County Council's public transport strategy, part-funded by the New Stations Fund.
Two other Devon stations had been opened in the mid-1990s, Ivybridge (between Plymouth and Totnes) in July 1994 and Digby & Sowton (in Exeter, on the Avocet line to Exmouth) in May 1995.
View our portfolios of Railwatch appearances for 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
In 2018 Peninsula Transport was established, in shadow form, as the new sub-national transport body for the South West. It seeks to offer the strategic transport policy context for Cornwall, Plymouth, Devon, Torbay, and Somerset Councils and other key stakeholders, and provide strategic advice to central government.
In 2021 Peninsula Transport consulted on its Vision, and Railfuture South West (Devon & Cornwall and Severnside regional branches) submitted a consultation response.
In November 2023 Peninsula Transport published its Rail Strategy.
In December 2023 it launched a public consultation on its Transport Strategy Strategic Transport Priorities to 2050, and in February 2024 Railfuture South West submitted a consultation response.
In March 2024 Peninsula Transport adopted the final version of its Transport Strategy at its Board meeting on the 7th, following public consultation until 5th February.
In June 2024 Peninsula Transport agreed the methodology for developing its Strategic Investment Plan.
In September 2024 the new government confirmed progress with the new Devon & Torbay Combined County Authority. "On transport, the proposed Deal builds on Devon County Council and Torbay Councils’ long history of working together on local transport planning."
Devon & Torbay Local Transport Plan 4 (2025-40). Public consultation began on Tuesday 1st October 2024, until 30th November. Two 1-hour webinars, on Tuesday 8th October and Monday 18th November; full details at LTP4. See the regional branch's final consultation response to LTP4 and accompanying statistical evidence:
and in Railfuture's Regional Lists of Rail User Groups, and Reopening Campaigns. The Regional List of RUGs, and the list of all RoCs, can be viewed, or downloaded in PDF format here.
Ten lines in the regional branch's area are promoted by the Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership, founded in 1991 as the country’s first Community Rail Partnership (CRP).
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Our area
The counties of Cornwall (a unitary authority) and Devon, including the unitary authorities of Plymouth City and Torbay, as well as the Districts of Exeter, East Devon, Mid-Devon, North Devon, West Devon, South Hams, Teignbridge, and Torridge.Events
At the 9th Rail User Group Awards presented in London on 15 July 2023, three representatives from different Devon organisations took home five awards between them! The coveted Judges' Special Award for Devon County Council, Gold Award for Best Social Media to Tarka Rail Association / ACE Rail campaign, Gold Award for Best Campaigner to Tarka Rail Association's ACE Rail campaign lead Tim Steer, Bronze Award for Best Campaign to Tarka Rail Association's ACE Rail campaign, and Gold Award for Best Website to Dartmoor Railway Association."Devon honoured to receive Railfuture award" - Councillor Andrea Davis, Cabinet Member for Climate Change, Environment and Transport, who received the award presented by Hon. President Christian Wolmar, said: "This award is an unexpected honour and an incredible achievement for the County Council. It’s extremely pleasing to know that effort has been recognised by Railfuture and we thank them for this award."
Branch AGMs
Saturday 30th September 2023 - afternoon online meeting, including representatives from six local campaign groups: Connect Bude, Heathfield Rail Link Association, OkeRail, Tarka Rail Association's ACE Rail campaign (to watch and listen to the videos in slides 5 and 6 of the TRA presentation, see the entries in Bideford to Exeter via Barnstaple for 9th December 2022 and 25th January 2023, respectively), TavyRail, and Torbay Rail User Group. Apologies for absence from Salisbury-Exeter Rail Users Group, who sent this briefing note.Click here for Railfuture and other regional and national events, also key campaign dates and conferences.
Campaigns
Bideford and Barnstaple to Exeter / Tavistock to Plymouth / Exeter to Salisbury / Improved Regional Connectivity / Exeter to Plymouth resilience / Proposed stationsBideford and Barnstaple to Exeter
Our most active and, in 2022 and 2023, award-winning current campaign - across Mid-Devon, North Devon and into Torridge - is for a modernised and extended North Devon (Tarka) Line, the Atlantic Coast - Exeter Railway (aka ACE Rail) for twice-hourly and faster services to and from Exeter Central. Railfuture is one of the early founders, in December 2023, of the growing Northern Devon Railway Development Alliance.
Tavistock to Plymouth
Restoring the rail link in West Devon between Tavistock and Bere Alston (for through journeys to and from Plymouth) is under active development since a bid to the DfT's Restoring Your Railway Ideas Fund was successful in attracting funding support for an updated Strategic Outline Business Case. See Tavistock to Plymouth Railway and April 2022 and November 2022 news. On 4th October 2023 Rail Minister Huw Merriman wrote to Torridge & West Devon MP Sir Geoffrey Cox KC confirming progress with the County Council's Restoring Your Railway project - see letter. Devon Metro continues to develop!See TavyRail - A group including rail professionals, academics & stakeholders focused on providing objective information for the Northern and Southern Dartmoor Rail Route debate.
The TavyRail / Peninsula Rail Group stall (R: Chair Richard Searight) at Tavistock EcoFest on 29th July 2023.
Exeter to Salisbury
Railfuture's Devon & Cornwall and Wessex regional branches are campaigning for a programme of incremental improvements to the route between Salisbury and Exeter to increase service frequency and its capacity as a diversionary alternative to the Great Western route. See details of our proposal at Salisbury to Exeter Route Capacity Enhancements. Within Devon we advocate a new passing loop at Whimple. For further information on this see our November 2017 Newsletter.The Honiton diversionary route was needed when the Exeter to Taunton railway was closed for 3 days at Cowley Bridge Junction, from Tuesday 12th June 2018, for the installation of 24 hollow concrete rectangular culvert structures.
The Honiton line would have been useful again from 18 February to 8 March 2019 when the railway was closed between Taunton and Tiverton Parkway for maintenance work at Whiteball Tunnel. Only a 2-hourly diversionary service can currently be added to the normal hourly Exeter to London Waterloo service.
See also the Railfuture-affiliated Salisbury-Exeter Rail Users Group. Details of their most recent AGM, in Sherborne on 25 October 2023, are here, and their briefing note for the Devon & Cornwall branch online AGM on 30 September 2023 is here.
Their launch newsletter in 2015 is here and a presentation to Railfuture's national conference in Carlisle in 2018, using SERUG as a positive case study, is here.
Improved Regional Connectivity
Rail journeys within Cornwall are set to improve now that the Mid-Cornwall Metro has secured Levelling-Up funding in January 2023. See "Millions awarded to transform transport links in the South West" and "Network Rail welcomes new funding in rail for the south west." In mid-December 2023 Cornwall Council's Cabinet gave the green light for Mid-Cornwall Metro; details in Agenda item 7 and Minute CAB/324. In August 2024 Newquay residents had a letter from Network Rail about 3 months' work preparing for reinstatement of the station's second platform leading to a doubling, to hourly, of services to and from Par starting in May 2025. September 2024 brought confirmation that work had started.Rail journeys between Devon and Dorset can take many more hours than those by road. Our priority is improved connections from Exeter to Dorchester and Weymouth, both via Castle Cary and the Yeovil Junction to Yeovil Pen Mill link.
Exeter to Plymouth resilience
During the late evening of Tuesday 4th February 2014 a storm surge breached the sea wall carrying the railway at Dawlish. Eighty metres of track were left hanging, the adjacent road cut and several houses undermined.On 8th February 2014 both lines to Taunton from the east were closed by flooding whilst Whiteball Tunnel was already closed for maintenance, and the South-Western line to Exeter was closed by a landslip at Crewkerne, leaving Exeter and Taunton totally isolated. This had the effect of cutting off Cornwall and half of Devon from the rest of the UK railway network. The lines to Exeter reopened, and the line at Dawlish was repaired and re-opened on 4th April 2014.
However the economy of the South-West cannot afford to be cut off for long periods of time again in future. Railfuture are campaigning for a resilient rail network in the south west which will also support economic growth. We therefore welcome the flood resilience works being undertaken at Hele by the River Culm, on the Exeter-Bristol route about 4 miles south of the new station for Cullompton. Click Dawlish to find out more about our campaign for an additional route and faster journey times, and register your support.
Proposed stations
Railfuture has supported the campaigns for further new stations at Edginswell / Torquay Gateway on the Riviera line between Newton Abbott and Paignton (backed by the New Stations Fund), at Cullompton, Devon between Exeter and Tiverton Parkway, and at Wellington, Somerset between Tiverton Parkway and Taunton (both backed by the Ideas Fund of the Restoring Your Railway programme with £5million development funding announced in October 2021 and confirmed in March 2022). In July 2023 it was reported that Torquay Gateway station faced a significant funding shortfall. In October 2023, the DfT's Network North said, in para 71.: "We will deliver rail improvements in the South West. We will reopen stations and reintroduce rail passenger services to Wellington and Cullompton, reinstate five miles of track and a new station at Tavistock to connect it with Plymouth." In late-October it was reported that Wellington station might open by September 2025.Tavistock is overdue a new station at the end of a reinstated link with Plymouth, via Bere Alston, its prospects recently revived and in November 2022 given a further boost with submission by Devon CC of the latest Strategic Outline Business Case, part-funded by the DfT from its Restoring Your Railway fund. On 4 October 2023 the local MP The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Cox KC received a re-assuring letter from Rail Minister Huw Merriman.
Okehampton Interchange (previously referred to as Okehampton East, Okehampton Parkway, and most recently West Devon Transport Hub) is seen as part of Devon Metro. In May 2022 Devon County Council announced that Okehampton Parkway station is part of a £92million bid to the Levelling-Up Fund second round, with results expected in early-2023. On 18 January the Department for Levelling-Up, Housing & Communities announced the winners which include "£13.5 million for a new railway station on the eastern edge of Okehampton - the West Devon Transport Hub - complete with high quality cycle facilities and EV charging points on site to better connect communities and promote active travel." See also "Network Rail welcomes new funding in rail for the south west" and "Millions awarded to transform transport links in the South West." See Okehampton Interchange, opening in Spring 2026. On 13 May 2024 the new station name was confirmed. On 12 June 2024 Devon County Council's Cabinet approved the £15m new station to be built at Okehampton Business Park, accepting the financial risk.
CAUTION: On Monday 29th July 2024 the new Chancellor of the Exchequer made an oral statement in the House of Commons on Public Spending: Inheritance and in particular said this: "The previous government also made a series of commitments on transport. The spending audit has revealed nearly £800m of unfunded transport projects that have been committed next year. So my RHF the Transport Secretary will undertake a thorough review of all these commitments. As part of that work, she has agreed not to move forwards with projects that the previous government refused to publicly cancel, despite knowing full well they were unaffordable. … and my RHF will also cancel projects in the “Restoring our Railways” programme which have not yet commenced.
For completeness, the full passage from Hansard (column 1037) is this:
"The previous Government also made a series of commitments on transport, promises that people expected to be delivered and promises that many Members across this House campaigned on in good faith, but the Conservative party has failed them. We have seen from the National Audit Office the chaos that the previous Government presided over, with projects over budget and delayed again and again. The spending audit has revealed £1 billion of unfunded transport projects that have been committed to next year, so my right hon. Friend the Transport Secretary will undertake a thorough review of these commitments. As part of that work, she has agreed not to move forwards with projects that the previous Government refused to publicly cancel, despite knowing full well that they were unaffordable. That includes proposed work on the A303 and the A27, and my right hon. Friend will also cancel the restoring your railway programme, saving £85 million next year, with individual projects to be assessed through her review. If we cannot afford it, we cannot do it."
As round 3 of the New Stations Fund was part of the Restoring Your Railway programme, there is also a dark cloud hanging over the fate of at least some of the stations which it and subsequent government announcements supported with funding, until the results of the Transport Secretary's review are known.
Other station re-openings on existing lines (and suggested by Railfuture Devon and Cornwall) include Plympton between Plymouth and Ivybridge (maybe a later increment to the Tavistock extension), Monkerton on the Exmouth line between Polsloe Bridge and Digby & Sowton (referenced in the autumn 2024 consultation on Local Transport Plan 4 for 2025-40); also Pool between Camborne and Redruth, and Kingskerswell between Torre and Newton Abbot.
Connecting Communities: framework assessment of new station opportunities on Western Route - a Network Rail Wales & Western Region report, first published in July 2024, re-published with minor corrections in November 2024. Five Case Studies, including Bideford (page 43) and Plympton (page 19).
Aspirations of other local groups
Restoring passenger services to the mothballed line in Teignbridge between Newton Abbott and Heathfield, and as close to Bovey Tracey as practicable, is the aim of Heath Rail Link. See also Heathfield Rail Link Association (HRLA) Facebook (private group).In addition to eventually reopening the inland Exeter to Plymouth line via Okehampton and Tavistock, Railfuture Devon and Cornwall advocates track-bed protection of some other closed lines where there may be potential for future reopening. These include:
- Tiverton to Tiverton Junction (Willand) (for service to Exeter),
- Sidmouth to Feniton (for service to Exeter).
- From the public opening of the Dartmoor Line on 20th November 2021, the 118 bus between Tavistock and Okehampton, via Brentor and Lydford, calls at Okehampton station every other hour, timed with trains (Monday-Saturday, some Sunday buses too).
- From 29th May 2022 Lynmouth and Lynton gained through bus links with Barnstaple rail station to link with Tarka Line train services, when the 309/310 services were extended from Barnstaple's town centre bus station. From 14th October 2024 a new contract brought new buses and timetable improvements to routes 309/310, which continue to connect with trains at Barnstaple station.
- From 30th October 2022 Launceston and Bude gained new dedicated bus links (Launceston route 306), (Bude via Holsworthy route 6) with trains at Okehampton.
- From 12th December 2022 Ilfracombe and Combe Martin also gained direct bus links with Barnstaple rail station, via the North Devon District Hospital, when a new service on route 301 was introduced. From 24th July 2023 it had a major frequency uplift.
See our latest illustrated one-page branch campaign strategy (April 2024). Much of our campaigning activity aligns with Devon Metro, launched in April 2011 as part of the County Council's Local Transport Plan 3 for 2011-26.
Campaign successes
The Okehampton Line
New stations
The long delayed £16 million Marsh Barton station between Exeter St. Thomas and Starcross on the Riviera line, was officially opened on 3rd July 2023 by the transport minister Mark Harper. Public services started the next day on Tuesday 4th July and consist mainly of an hourly service on the Paignton, Exeter and Exmouth route.The station serves Exeter's large Marsh Barton industrial estate and also provides good access for walks alongside the River Exe and canal. Parking is limited to only 3 disabled spaces, so this might discourage the station's use by local Alphington residents. See the following links for further background information on the development of Marsh Barton , and works that progressed throughout 2022.
Exeter's new Marsh Barton station the day before opening to the public and one of the Paignton bound services which now stop here.
Other new stations opened in 2015 at Newcourt (June) on the Avocet line to Exmouth and at Cranbrook (December) on the line to Axminster, Yeovil and Salisbury. These are key elements of the Devon Metro concept, part of Devon County Council's public transport strategy, part-funded by the New Stations Fund.
Two other Devon stations had been opened in the mid-1990s, Ivybridge (between Plymouth and Totnes) in July 1994 and Digby & Sowton (in Exeter, on the Avocet line to Exmouth) in May 1995.
Newsletter
View our most recent and previous Railfuture Devon and Cornwall branch newsletters here.View our portfolios of Railwatch appearances for 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
Regional transport planning
In 2013 the Peninsula Rail Task Force was established; it became the strategic rail sub group of Peninsula Transport in 2020.In 2018 Peninsula Transport was established, in shadow form, as the new sub-national transport body for the South West. It seeks to offer the strategic transport policy context for Cornwall, Plymouth, Devon, Torbay, and Somerset Councils and other key stakeholders, and provide strategic advice to central government.
In 2021 Peninsula Transport consulted on its Vision, and Railfuture South West (Devon & Cornwall and Severnside regional branches) submitted a consultation response.
In November 2023 Peninsula Transport published its Rail Strategy.
In December 2023 it launched a public consultation on its Transport Strategy Strategic Transport Priorities to 2050, and in February 2024 Railfuture South West submitted a consultation response.
In March 2024 Peninsula Transport adopted the final version of its Transport Strategy at its Board meeting on the 7th, following public consultation until 5th February.
In June 2024 Peninsula Transport agreed the methodology for developing its Strategic Investment Plan.
In September 2024 the new government confirmed progress with the new Devon & Torbay Combined County Authority. "On transport, the proposed Deal builds on Devon County Council and Torbay Councils’ long history of working together on local transport planning."
Devon & Torbay Local Transport Plan 4 (2025-40). Public consultation began on Tuesday 1st October 2024, until 30th November. Two 1-hour webinars, on Tuesday 8th October and Monday 18th November; full details at LTP4. See the regional branch's final consultation response to LTP4 and accompanying statistical evidence:
- South West regional rail usage, 2019-20 and 2023-24
- Peninsula Transport (Devon and Cornwall) lines - stations usage, 2019-20 and 2023-24
- Peninsula Transport stations busier than Barnstaple, 2019-20 and 2023-24
- North Devon (Tarka) line stations usage, 1997-98 to 2023-24
- North Devon (Tarka) line journeys, first 11 4-week periods, 2009-24
- North Devon (Tarka) line principal destinations, 2023-24
- Devon's 'rail-mindedness,' 2023-24
Rail User Groups
Rail user groups and re-opening campaign groups in Devon and Cornwall are shown in the following table| Devon & Cornwall | ACE Rail campaign - Facebook (also BRHC Ace Rail) |
| Ashburton RUG (contact via Exeter & Teign Valley Railway) | |
| Avocet Line RUG (ALRUG) | |
| Combe Rail | |
| Connect Bude - also Facebook | |
| Dartmoor Railway Association | |
| Exeter & Teign Valley Railway | |
| Heathfield Rail Link Association - Facebook | |
| Ivybridge Rail Users Group | |
| North Devon Line - Rail Promotion Group (formerly Tarka Rail Association) | |
| Northern Devon Railway Development Alliance - see Bideford and Barnstaple to Exeter | |
| Northern Route Working Group | |
| OkeRail | |
| Salisbury-Exeter Rail Users Group (SERUG) | |
| TavyRail (formerly Peninsula Rail Group) | |
| Torbay RUG - buzzer12 at btinternet.com (Roger Dixon) | |
| Totnes RUG - plagerson at bridgetown.eclipse.co.uk |
Ten lines in the regional branch's area are promoted by the Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership, founded in 1991 as the country’s first Community Rail Partnership (CRP).
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See all Devon and Cornwall branch documents etc in the full dashboard.Contact
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