Bristol And Exeter Railway
The Bristol & Exeter Railway was a railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter.
The company's head office was situated outside their Bristol station. Designed by Samuel Fripp, it was opened in 1854.
In addition to the mainline from Bristol to Exeter (Devon), branches were opened to Clevedon, Cheddar and Wells, Weston-super-Mare, Chard, and Yeovil in Somerset, and to Tiverton, Devon. The Bristol & Exeter also worked a number of small independent railways: the Bristol and Portishead Port and Pier Railway, the Somerset Central Railway, the West Somerset Railway and Minehead Railway, the Devon and Somerset Railway, and the Exeter and Crediton Railway.
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