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Avocet Line

branch railway in Devon, UK
Place branch_line Q4829130

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
branch line, ELR railway line section[4]
Owned by
Network Rail[5]
Country
United Kingdom[3]
Official website
www.avocetline.org.uk[15]
Part of
National Rail[9]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 50.679°, -3.452°[13]
Date of official opening
May 1, 1861
Described by source
Engineer's Line References (ELRs): A (Hopefully) Comprehensive Listing, Railway Data Centre, Signalling Record Society line data, GeoFurlong[16][17][18][19]
Historic county
Devon
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02
Length
18 km, 9.425 mile
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Devon[2]
Operator
Great Western Railway, London and South Western Railway, Southern Railway (1923–1947)[6][7][8]
Route diagram template
Template:Avocet Line RDT
Terminus
Exeter St Davids railway station, Exmouth railway station, Exmouth Junction[10][11][12]
Topic has template
Template:Avocet Line RDT[20]
Train depot
Exeter TMD[14]
🏷️ Also known as
en Avocet Line en EMT en Exmouth branch railway ja アヴォセット線
🔖 Identifiers · 5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Lympstone Commando - FGW 150233 down train.JPG ↗
Engineer's Line Reference
EMT
Freebase ID
/m/054fxc
Historic England research records ID
1360041
OpenStreetMap relation ID
15470311

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Summary

Avocet Line is a branch line[1].

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Physical Characteristics

Lengths include 18 km[21] and 9.425 miles[22].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Signalling Record Society line data. s-r-s.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . avocetline.org.uk. Retrieved . avocetline.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . avocetline.org.uk. Retrieved . avocetline.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Engineer's Line References (ELRs): A (Hopefully) Comprehensive Listing. railwaycodes.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . Engineer's Line References (ELRs): A (Hopefully) Comprehensive Listing. railwaycodes.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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