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The Tivvy Bumper

A great favourite with visitors to Tiverton Museum.

The "Tivvy Bumper" was actually the name given by local passengers to the train which travelled the line between Tiverton and Tiverton Junction at Willand. It was a push-pull train, with the engine pulling the coaches one way along the line and pushing them back on the return journey.

Engine 1442 in the Authers Gallery
Engine 1442 in the Authers Gallery
The locomotive in the museum sometimes pulled the "Tivvy Bumper" and also pulled trains on the Exe Valley line from Exeter St.David's to Dulverton, and the Culm Valley line from Tiverton Junction to Hemyock. It is a 14xx 0-4-2T tank engine no. 1442, built by the Great Western Railway in 1934 at Swindon. This locomotive pulled the last train to Tiverton in October 1965.