Exeter St Davids railway station
Exeter St Davids railway station is the main train station in Exeter, England.
It is the second busiest station in Devon, with around 200,000 fewer customers each year than Plymouth. Passenger numbers increased by 30% between April 2002 and April 2007..[1]
The station opened on 1 May 1844.[2]
Services
There are two ways from St Davids to London. The main line is the First Great Western service by the Bristol to Exeter line to Paddington station,[3] but there is also a train by South Western Railway on the West of England Main Line to Waterloo.[4] The station is one of the few that have trains to London going in other ways at both ends of the station. There are also trains by CrossCountry to Birmingham New Street, the North of England and Scotland.[5]
Exeter St Davids Railway Station Media
Exeter in 1844. A print by William Spreat showing St Davids in 1844.
The transfer shed built in the 1860s
A diagram (not to scale) of the tracks and platforms at St Davids station, Exeter, Devon, England.
View from Red Cow level crossing. The yellow Network Rail train is in platform 2; platform 3 is straight ahead; the old goods shed is on the right.
Aerial view from the South
Great Western Railway services to and from London Paddington
References
- ↑ "Station Usage". Rail Statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Archived from the original on 17 July 2007. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
- ↑ MacDermot, E T (1931). History of the Great Western Railway, volume II 1863-1921. London: Great Western Railway.
- ↑ "National Rail Timetable 135 (Summer 2009)" (PDF). Network Rail. Retrieved 7 July 2012.[dead link]
- ↑ "National Rail Timetable 160 (Summer 2009)" (PDF). Network Rail. Retrieved 7 July 2012.[dead link]
- ↑ "National Rail Timetable 51 (Summer 2009)" (PDF). Network Rail. Retrieved 7 July 2012.[dead link]
