General information | |
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Location | Lympstone, East Devon England |
Coordinates | 50°38′56″N3°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 |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Lympstone Village railway station serves the village of Lympstone in Devon,England.
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.
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]
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 |
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