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A Victorian signal box which was once earmarked as a holiday home has sold for £65,750. The Grade 2 listed box at Torre Station in Torquay, Devon, saw rival bidders compete to claim the online ...
Torre Station opened in December 1848 as the “iron horse” finally reached Torbay as a team of navvies spent a decade building the railway across southern England. Its arrival in Torquay was ...
The former signal box on Torre Station in Torquay has been sold by Paul Fosh Auctions A disused Victorian railway signal box on a station platform on the English Riviera sold at auction. The imposing ...
When an agreement was finally made, Torquay Railway Station, close to the seafront near Torre Abbey and the Grand Hotel, was opened by the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway in August 1859.
The twelfth and last engine house constructed on the South Devon Railway is on a branch line that separates south of Newton Abbot. The engine house was called Torquay, but it is not near the ...
You are in: Devon > History > Local history > New look for old abbey The renovated store area at the abbey By Laura Joint Torquay's historic Torre Abbey has been saved thanks to a £6.5 million ...
The Grade 2 listed box at Torre Station in Torquay, Devon, saw rival bidders compete to claim the online auction lot. The three-storey-high box is just a mile from the seafront on the English Riviera.