Keyham railway station
Keyham | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | Plymouth |
| Managed by | First Great Western |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | KEY |
| History | |
| Original company | Great Western Railway |
| Key dates | |
| Opened | 1900 |
Keyham railway station is a suburban rail station in the city of Plymouth, England. It is served by First Great Western services between Plymouth and Gunnislake and a very few on the Cornish Main Line to Saltash and beyond.
The entrance is on the platform served by trains to Gunnislake. A second platform is reached by footbridge that is served by trains to Plymouth.
The station is close to the Devonport dockyard.
History
This station was opened by the Great Western Railway on 1 June 1900.[1] The goods facilities were used for marshalling trains to and from the Cornwall Railway branch into the naval dockyard, opened on 20 June 1867, which enters the dockyard between the station and Weston Mill viaduct.[2]
The Cornwall Railway was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway on 1 July 1889. The Great Western Railway was nationalised into British Railways from 1 January 1948 which was in turn privatised in the 1990s.
Services
Keyham is served by Tamar Valley Line services from Plymouth to Gunnislake,[3] and also by a few trains on the Cornish Main Line to and from Penzance, some of which continue eastwards beyond Plymouth towards Exeter St Davids.[4]
| Preceding station |  National Rail
|
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dockyard | First Great Western Cornish Main Line |
St Budeaux Ferry Road | ||
| Dockyard | First Great Western Tamar Valley Line |
=St Budeaux Victoria Road | ||
Community railway
The railway from Plymouth to Gunnislake is designated as a community railway and is supported by marketing provided by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership. The line is promoted under the "Tamar Valley Line" name. It is also part of the Dartmoor Sunday Rover network of integrated bus and rail routes
References
- ^ Oakley, Mike (2007). Devon Railway Stations. Wimbourne: The Dovecote Press. ISBN 1-904349-55-6.
{{cite book}}: Check|isbn=value: checksum (help) - ^ Burkhalter, Paul (1996). Devonport Dockyard Railway. Truro: Twelveheads Press. ISBN 0-90629-437-1.
- ^ "National Rail Timetable 139 (Summer 2008)" (PDF). Network Rail. Retrieved 2008-05-30.
- ^ "National Rail Timetable 135 (Summer 2008)" (PDF). Network Rail. Retrieved 2008-05-30.
Further reading
- Beck, Keith (1990). The Great Western in South Devon. Didcot: Wild Swan Publication. ISBN 0-906867-90-8.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthor=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - Cooke, R A (1979). Track Layout Diagrams of the GWR and BR WR: Section 12, Plymouth. Harwell: R A Cooke.
- Crozier, Larry (2000). Mechanical Signalling in Plymouth. Wallasey: Signalling Record Society. ISBN 1-873228-18-X.
- Jacobs, Gerald (2005). Railway Track Diagrams Book 3: Western. Bradford-on-Avon: Trackmaps. ISBN 0-954986-61-X.
- Leitch, Russell (2002). Plymouth's Railways in the 1930s. Peterborough: Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. ISBN 0-901115-91-6.
- Mosley, Brian. "Keyham Station". Encyclopedia of Plymouth History. Plymouth Data. Retrieved 2008-08-22. [dead link]
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