Pinhoe railway station

Pinhoe
General information
Location	Pinhoe, Exeter England, United Kingdom
Coordinates	50°44′16″N3°28′11″W / 50.7377°N 3.4698°W / 50.7377; -3.4698
Grid reference	SX962941
Managed by	South Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	PIN
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	London and South Western Railway
Post-grouping	Southern Railway
Key dates
1871	Opened
1966	Closed for passengers
1967	Closed for goods
1983	Reopened
Passengers
2020/21	46,198

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Legend
Avocet Line to Exmouth Topsham Newcourt Digby & Sowton Polsloe Bridge West of England line to London Waterloo via Salisbury Pinhoe St James Park Exeter Central Bristol–Exeter line to Bristol and London Paddington Exeter St Davids Tarka Line to Barnstaple Exeter St Thomas Marsh Barton Riviera Line to Paignton & Exeter–Plymouth line to Plymouth and Penzance

Off-peak, all services at Pinhoe are operated by South Western Railway using Class 158 and 159 DMUs.

The average off-peak service in trains per hour is: ^[6]

• 1 tph to London Waterloo via Salisbury
• 1 tph to Exeter St Davids

The station is also served by a single weekday peak hour service from Barnstaple to Axminster, which is operated by Great Western Railway. ^[7]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Cranbrook		South Western Railway West of England Main Line		Exeter Central
		Great Western Railway West of England Main Line Limited Service

Signalling

The station was built next to the level crossing of Pinn Lane. This was operated by the station staff until 1875, when a small signal box was brought into use; it was situated on the north side of the line to the east of the road. The initial 11 levers were extended to 17 in 1943, when the cold store was built. On 11 June 1967 one of the two tracks between Pinhoe and Honiton was taken out of use, and trains towards London would often wait in the closed station for a westbound train to clear the 14-mile (23 km) single track section. The level crossing gates were replaced with lifting barriers on 17 March 1968. The signal box was closed on 13 February 1988, the level crossing and signals now being controlled from Exmouth Junction. ^[2] The old signal box was dismantled and re-erected in the railway museum at Bere Ferrers on the Tamar Valley Line. ^[1]

See also

• Southern Railway routes west of Salisbury

References

1. Oakley, Mike (2007). Devon Railway Stations. Wimbourne: The Dovecote Press. ISBN   978-1-904349-55-6.
2. Phillips, Derek; Pryer, George (1997). The Salisbury to Exeter Line. Sparkford: Oxford Publishing Company. ISBN   0-86093-525-6.
3. "Table 160: London to Salisbury and Exeter" (PDF). Electronic National Rail Timetable. Network Rail. December 2009. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
4. "Station Usage". Rail Statistics. Office of Rail Regulation. Archived from the original on 10 July 2014. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
5. A–Z Exeter (4th ed.). Sevenoaks: Geographers’A–Z Map Company. 2007. p. 12. ISBN   978-1-84348-504-9.
6. Table 160 National Rail timetable, May 2022
7. "Train times: Exeter to Barnstaple and Okehampton" (PDF). Great Western Railway. Retrieved 16 May 2022.

External links

• Train times and station information for Pinhoe railway station from National Rail