page_title: Devon and Somerset Railway
section_title: Engineering
hierarchical_section_title: Devon and Somerset Railway / Engineering
caption_attribution_description: English: The North Devon Link road (A361) crosses the River Bray. The pillars of the bridge are reused from the Devon and Somerset Railway
context_page_description: The Devon and Somerset Railway was a cross-country line that connected Barnstaple in Devon, England, to the network of the Bristol and Exeter Railway near Taunton. It was opened in stages between 1871 and 1873 and closed in 1966. It served a mostly rural area although it carried some through services from east of Taunton to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.
  From 1988 onwards the route of the line west of South Molton was redeveloped to form the part of the North Devon Link Road.
context_section_description: 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. The pillars have been reused for the North Devon Link road.
  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
caption: The pillars of Castle Hill Viaduct have been reused for the North Devon Link road (A361)
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