Engineering
The line featured steep gradients; 16.75 miles (26.96 km) were at 1 in 60 (1.7%) or steeper, and much of the rest was steeper than 1 in 140 (0.7%). The principal engineering works on the railway were:
- Waterrow Viaduct, Venn Cross: a wrought iron viaduct 162 yards (148 m) long and 101 feet (31 m) above the valley floor
- Castle Hill (or Filleigh) Viaduct, Filleigh, a stone-pillared cast-iron viaduct 232 yards long and 94 feet (29 m) high
- Bathealton Tunnel, 440 yards (400 m) long
- Venn Cross Tunnel, 246 yards (225 m) long
- Nightcote Tunnel, 44 yards (40 m) long, near Dulverton
- Castle Hill Tunnel, 317 yards (290 m) long
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