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Until the 1840s Paignton was a small agricultural and fishing town, in the mid 19th century, it became popular with retirees and it's beaches. It began to attract holidaymakers yet it was the arrival of the railway station in 1859 that triggered it's development as Torbay's seaside resort.

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