St Budeaux Ferry Road railway station

St Budeaux Ferry Road railway station is a suburban station in St Budeaux, Plymouth, England. It is 248 miles 77 chains (400.7 km) from London Paddington via Bristol Temple Meads.

For the nearby station on the Tamar Valley Line, see St Budeaux Victoria Road railway station.

St Budeaux Ferry Road
Looking west
Location
PlaceSt Budeaux
Local authorityPlymouth
Coordinates50.40141°N 4.18680°W / 50.40141; -4.18680
Grid referenceSX446580
Operations
Station codeSBF
Managed byGreat Western Railway
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 3,926
2015/16 2,980
2016/17 3,976
2017/18 2,680
2018/19 3,092
History
Original companyGreat Western Railway
Opened1904
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at St Budeaux Ferry Road from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

It is served by Great Western Railway services during the rush hour only. The vast majority of services pass through non-stop due to the proximity of St Budeaux Victoria Road: the entrances to the two stations are directly opposite each other. To the west, the line singles and crosses into Cornwall on the Royal Albert Bridge.

The station is unstaffed with step-free access to both platforms.

History

The station was opened by the Great Western Railway on 1 June 1904[1] as St Budeaux Platform, renamed St Budeaux Ferry Road to avoid confusion with the London and South Western Railway St Budeaux Victoria Road station.

The reason for the separate stations is due to the two railways taking different routes into the city. A junction was laid between the two lines during World War II and the London and South Western Railway line between Victoria Road and Plymouth closed in 1964.

Services

Ferry Road has a limited service of Great Western Railway trains on the Cornish Main Line between Plymouth and Penzance, some of which continue eastwards from Plymouth towards Exeter St Davids.[2] A more frequent service to Plymouth operates from the adjacent Victoria Road on the Tamar Valley Line.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Keyham   Great Western Railway
Cornish Main Line		   Saltash

References
  1. Oakley, Mike (2007). Devon Railway Stations. Wimborne: The Dovecote Press. ISBN 978-1-904349-55-6.
  2. Table 135 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Further reading
  • Beck, Keith; Copsey, John (1990). The Great Western in South Devon. Didcot: Wild Swan Publication. ISBN 0-906867-90-8.
  • 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 0-9549866-1-X.
  • Leitch, Russell (2002). Plymouth's Railways in the 1930s. Peterborough: Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. ISBN 0-901115-91-6.
  • Mosley, Brian (17 February 2007). "St Budeaux Ferry Road Station (GWR)". Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History. Plymouth Data. Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
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