Lympstone Village | |
Symbol Location: | gb |
Symbol: | rail |
Borough: | Lympstone, East Devon |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 50.6488°N -3.4317°W |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Manager: | Great Western Railway |
Platforms: | 1 |
Code: | LYM |
Classification: | DfT category F2 |
Original: | London and South Western Railway |
Postgroup: | Southern Railway |
Years: | 1861 |
Events: | Opened as Lympstone |
Years2: | 3 May 1991 |
Events2: | Renamed Lympstone Village |
Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Lympstone Village railway station serves the village of Lympstone in Devon, England. It is a stop on the Avocet Line between Exeter and Exmouth.
Lympstone station was opened along with the railway on 1 May 1861. It was renamed 'Lympstone Village' in 1991 to avoid confusion with the new Lympstone Commando railway station that had opened on 3 May 1976.[1]
Following the privatisation of British Rail, the service was operated by Wales & West, latterly Wessex Trains; on 31 March 2006, 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.[2]
Great Western Railway operate all trains serving the station. There are generally half-hourly stopping trains between and, via .[3]