Lympstone Village railway station
General information | |||||
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Location | Lympstone, East Devon England | ||||
Coordinates | 50°38′56″N 3°25′54″W / 50.64884°N 3.43166°W | ||||
Grid reference | SX989841 | ||||
Managed by | Great Western Railway | ||||
Platforms | 1 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | LYM | ||||
Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
History | |||||
Original company | London and South Western Railway | ||||
Post-grouping | Southern Railway | ||||
Key dates | |||||
1861 | Opened as Lympstone | ||||
3 May 1991 | Renamed to Lympstone Village[1] | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2018/19 | 101,022 | ||||
2019/20 | 97,510 | ||||
2020/21 | 27,330 | ||||
2021/22 | 71,054 | ||||
2022/23 | 83,042 | ||||
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Lympstone Village railway station serves the village of Lympstone in Devon, England.
History[edit]
Lympstone station was opened with the railway on 1 May 1861. It was renamed Lympstone Village in the 1991 to avoid confusion with the new Lympstone Commando railway station that had opened on 3 May 1976.[2]
Following the privatisation of British Rail it was operated by Wales & West, latterly Wessex Trains, until 31 March 2006 when the franchise was taken over by First Great Western.
Description and facilities[edit]
The station is situated on an embankment, with a single platform; a disused second platform is now heavily overgrown. To the south the line crosses the village on a low viaduct.
It is unstaffed and tickets cannot be purchased at the station. There are stands for bicycle parking and a 20-space car park.[3]
Services[edit]
Lympstone Village is served by trains on the Avocet Line between Exmouth and Paignton via Exeter St Davids.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Lympstone Commando | Great Western Railway Avocet Line |
Exmouth |
References[edit]
- ^ Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 301
- ^ Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (1992). Branch Lines to Exmouth. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 1-873793-00-6.
- ^ "National Rail Enquiries". Retrieved 5 October 2015.
External links[edit]
- Train times and station information for Lympstone Village railway station from National Rail