Exeter St Davids railway station

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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[change | change source]

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]

References[change | change source]

  1. "Station Usage". Rail Statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Archived from the original on 17 July 2007. Retrieved 7 July 2012.
  2. MacDermot, E T (1931). History of the Great Western Railway, volume II 1863-1921. London: Great Western Railway.
  3. "National Rail Timetable 135 (Summer 2009)" (PDF). Network Rail. Retrieved 7 July 2012.[permanent dead link]
  4. "National Rail Timetable 160 (Summer 2009)" (PDF). Network Rail. Retrieved 7 July 2012.[permanent dead link]
  5. "National Rail Timetable 51 (Summer 2009)" (PDF). Network Rail. Retrieved 7 July 2012.[permanent dead link]