Editing Avocet Line (section)

===Train services in the nineteenth century===
[[File:Exmouth engraving.jpg|thumb|Exmouth station (left) at the time of opening]]
The branch line, operated as a single entity, was exceptionally successful, and 2,000 passengers a day used the line in the first week. Passenger trains in the early days were worked by Beattie 2-2-2 well tanks, with a varied collection of coaching stock transferred from elsewhere on the L&SWR system.

At first there were five trains each way seven days a week, increased to seven trains each way (but four on Sundays) from 1 July in the opening year.<ref name = phillips/>{{page needed|date=March 2017}}