Editing Dartmouth, Devon (section)

==Transport==
Dartmouth is linked to [[Kingswear]], on the other side of the River Dart, by three ferries. The [[Dartmouth Higher Ferry|Higher Ferry]] and the [[Dartmouth Lower Ferry|Lower Ferry]] are both vehicular ferries. The [[Dartmouth Passenger Ferry|Passenger Ferry]], as its name suggests, carries only passengers, principally to connect with the [[Dartmouth Steam Railway]] at [[Kingswear railway station]]. The nearest bridge across the Dart is in [[Totnes]], some {{convert|11|mi}} away by road.<ref name=dhrgf>{{cite web | url = http://www.dartharbour.org/harbour-river-guide/ferries/ | title = Dart Harbour : Ferries | publisher = The Dart Harbour and Navigation Authority | access-date = 18 September 2008 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081019034117/http://www.dartharbour.org/harbour-river-guide/ferries/ | archive-date = 19 October 2008 }}</ref>
[[File:Dartmouth station building.jpg|thumb|left|Dartmouth station building, now a restaurant.]]
The [[A379 road]] runs through Dartmouth, linking the town to [[Slapton, Devon|Slapton]] and [[Kingsbridge]] to the southwest and to [[Torbay]] to the east across the Higher Ferry. The [[A3122 road|A3122]] connects Dartmouth to a junction with the [[A381 road|A381]], and hence to both Totnes and a more direct route to Kingsbridge.
[[Stagecoach South West]] provides local town bus services and links to [[Plymouth]], [[Totnes]] and [[Exeter]], and Kingsbridge. In addition it provides links to the [[Torbay]] resorts of [[Brixham]], [[Paignton]] and Torquay from [[Kingswear]] via the ferry.

No railway has ever run to Dartmouth, but the town does have a [[railway station]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.southdevonaonb.org.uk/text.asp?PageId=200 |title=Heritage, Landscape & Wildlife: Dartmouth Town Trail |publisher=South Devon AONB |access-date=25 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226023813/http://www.southdevonaonb.org.uk/text.asp?PageId=200 |archive-date=26 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> opened on 31 March 1890 to replace the original facility on the pontoon,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Potts|first1=C.R.|title=The Newton Abbot to Kingswear Railway|date=2014|publisher=Oakwood Press|location=Usk|isbn=978-0-85361-733-4|pages=339|edition=2nd}}</ref> although it is now a restaurant. In fact Dartmouth Railway Station was built while the line from Paignton to the River Dart was still being built, anticipating a bridge across the river being built near the present Greenway Halt.   The railway line to Kingswear was opened in 1864. As a result of shortage of capital, a deviation from the original scheme to run the line from Churston to Greenway with a steamer service to Dartmouth was proposed, but defeated in Parliament. It had been suggested that this could, at a later date, be used as a jumping off point for a bridge to the west bank of the Dart and a line direct to Dartmouth.<ref>Potts (2014), pp. 36–40</ref> In 1900, a Light Railway scheme was proposed for a crossing of the Dart near Maypool to join another line from Totnes and then proceed to Kingsbridge and [[Yealmpton]], with a branch to [[Salcombe]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Williams and Reynolds|first1=Ken and Dermot|title=The Kingsbridge Branch|date=1977|publisher=Oxford Publishing Co.|location=Oxford|isbn=086093-001-7|pages=27, 28}}</ref> This was also defeated by lack of funds. The railway terminated at a station called "Kingswear for Dartmouth" (now on the [[Dartmouth Steam Railway]]) and a ferry took passengers across the river to the station at [[Dartmouth railway station]], which had a dedicated pontoon. [[British Rail]]ways formally closed the line to mainline passenger trains in 1973, but it immediately re-opened as a heritage line and has run as one ever since.

[[File:dartmouth.boats.750pix.jpg|thumb|right|Kingswear seen from Dartmouth]]