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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
Phoebe Taplin

Steam trains, shipwrecks and Tarka the otter: a car-free break around Exeter, Devon

Train through Dawlish, Devon
A web of scenic railway lines radiate across the Devon countryside. Photograph: Phoebe Taplin

The moon makes a silver path over Tor Bay. It’s framed by clouds of steam, glowing lilac in the train’s floodlights. This is the view from my toasty carriage on the Dartmouth Steam Railway’s Train of Lights. It’s one of many things I would have missed if I’d come in summer.

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