Culm Valley Light Railway

The Culm Valley Light Railway was incorporated under an 1873 act of Parliament with 25,000 pounds of capital and opened in 1876 as a standard gauge branch line running just under 7.5 miles from Tiverton Junction, on the Bristol and Exeter line, through the Culm Valley to Hemyock in Devon, England, to serve remote local settlements. Facing financial difficulty, it was purchased outright by the Great Western Railway in 1880, and the line's economics were later transformed when United Dairies opened a creamery and milk factory at Hemyock, making dairy traffic dominant; passenger service ended in 1963 but the line kept serving the milk depot until 1975.