page_title: Exeter St David's railway station
section_title: Services
hierarchical_section_title: Exeter St David's railway station / Services
caption_attribution_description: English: 43142 (right) arrives at Exeter St Davids station with a train for London, passing 43183 which is heading west.
context_page_description: Exeter St Davids is the principal railway station serving the city of Exeter in Devon, England. It is 193 miles 72 chains from London Paddington on the line through Bristol which continues to Plymouth and Penzance. It is also served by an alternative route to London Waterloo via Salisbury and branch lines to Exmouth and Barnstaple.
  The station opened in 1844 as the terminus of the Bristol and Exeter Railway. It is currently managed by Great Western Railway and is served by trains operated by Great Western Railway, South Western Railway and CrossCountry.
context_section_description: There are two direct routes from St Davids to London. The main line is generally considered to be the Great Western Railway service via the Reading–Taunton line to London Paddington but there is also a service operated by South Western Railway on their West of England Main Line to London Waterloo via Salisbury and Basingstoke. Because of this the station is one of the few that have trains to London departing in opposite directions at either end of the station – those to Paddington leave northwards while those to Waterloo head south but turn eastwards, and start the steep climb to Exeter Central just outside the station.  Further long-distance services are operated by CrossCountry to Birmingham New Street, Manchester Piccadilly, Sheffield, Leeds, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
  Three local routes converge at St David's – the Avocet Line from Exmouth, the Tarka Line from Barnstaple, and the Riviera Line from Paignton. Trains from Exmouth generally continue to either Barnstaple or Paignton to provide a cross-Exeter service.  A few GWR services also run between Paignton/Plymouth and Bristol or Cardiff Central, mainly in the morning & late evening.
  In addition to this core daytime pattern there are a number of other, less frequent, services including the Night Riviera sleeping car service from London Paddington to Penzance. On summer Sundays services are operated over the Tarka Line and then on an otherwise goods-only line to Okehampton on the Dartmoor Railway, and the steam hauled "Torbay Express" calls on its weekly run to Paignton and Kingswear on the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway.
caption: First Great Western services to and from London Paddington
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