Tiverton Parkway railway station
Tiverton Parkway  | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Sampford Peverell, Mid Devon England | ||||
| Coordinates | 50°55′01″N 3°21′36″W / 50.917°N 3.360°W | ||||
| Grid reference | ST045139 | ||||
| Managed by | Great Western Railway | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | TVP | ||||
| Classification | DfT category D | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | British Rail | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| Opened | 12 May 1986 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018/19 |  0.480 million | ||||
| 2019/20 |  0.510 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 0.119 million | ||||
| 2021/22 | 0.405 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.524 million | ||||
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Tiverton Parkway railway station is on the
The station is operated by Great Western Railway and is also served by CrossCountry trains.
History
The
By the 1980s the branch to Tiverton had closed and Tiverton Junction station only saw a couple of trains in each direction each day so a decision was taken to relocate the station a short distance to the east, close to the motorway junction where traffic from
An additional car park for the station was opened in late 2007 as the original car park was too small when FGW increased the services to the station. The additional car park is situated alongside (but not accessed by) the A361 road and requires a short walk to the station, while the original is alongside the platform.
Facilities
The main entrance and a large car park are on the west side of the station, where a single-storey brick building at
Access to the platform for trains towards Exeter,
Services
The main line services through Tiverton are provided by two operators:
- Reading to Taunton Line or on the Great Western Main Line through Bristol Temple Meads. It also operates regional services which start in the Bristol area.[5]
- CrossCountry operates services from Scotland and the north of England via Birmingham New Street and Bristol Temple Meads.[6]
The trains of both operators continue beyond Tiverton Parkway to serve stations onwards into Devon and Cornwall, including Exeter St Davids, Plymouth, Paignton and Penzance.[5][7]
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Taunton | Bristol to Exeter line
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Exeter St Davids | ||
Scotland to Penzance
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The station is linked to both Tiverton and to Cullompton by hourly bus service 373. On Sundays and Bank Holidays the station is served by service 1 between Exeter and Tiverton.
In addition to being situated close to the junction of the
The proximity of the station to the motorway - and the relative inaccessibility of Exeter St Davids station in the city of Exeter - means that it is often used as the 'coach exchange' when the line between Exeter and Plymouth is closed and rail passengers are detrained onto coaches for the remainder of the journey. This was particularly evident in early 2014 when a storm breached the sea wall at Dawlish causing disruption to train services west of Exeter; a coach park was built to accommodate the coaches used for this.[8]
See also
- List of Parkway railway stations
References
- ISBN 978-1-9996271-0-2.
- ^ MacDermot, E T (1931). History of the Great Western Railway, volume II 1863-1921. London: Great Western Railway.
- ^ "List of dates from 1 January 1985 to 20 January 2006 of last passenger trains at closed BR (or Network Rail stations since privatisation)". National Archives: Department for Transport Website: Freedom of Information Act responses, February 2006. Department for Transport. 2006. Archived from the original on 27 January 2009. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
- ISBN 978-1-904349-55-6.
- ^ a b "National Rail Timetable 135" (PDF) (Summer 2016 ed.). Network Rail.
- ^ "National Rail Timetable 51" (PDF) (Summer 2016 ed.). Network Rail.
- ^ "Great Western Main Line map" (PDF). Network Rail. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
- ^ "Temporary Car Coach Park Ease Transport". Mid-Devon Gazette.[dead link]