Devon's lost railway, abandoned for over half a century, still bears traces of its once glorious train routes that were axed decades ago. Dr Richard Beeching's two reports, The Reshaping of ...

Devon was left with a skeleton rail service following the Beeching Report in 1963. We look back at the impact of the Beeching axe, and ahead at the prospects for one of the lost lines being reopened.

A cliff railway that closed in September after the death of an engineer has reopened. Babbacombe Cliff Railway takes passengers to and from Oddicombe beach in Torbay, Devon.

Everyone loves a lost railway. And in part of Devon, there is still plenty of evidence of some of the one magnificent train routes which were axed decades ago. Dr Richard Beeching, in two reports ...