page_title: Exeter Central railway station
section_title: Services
hierarchical_section_title: Exeter Central railway station / Services
caption_attribution_description: English: First Great Western's 153373 (with 150125 coupled behind) calls at Exeter Central station on the way to Exmouth where it passes South West Train's 159015 which is nearing journey's end on a London Waterloo to Exeter St Davids service.
context_page_description: Exeter Central railway station is the most central of the stations in the city of Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom. It is 171 miles 30 chains down the line from London Waterloo. The station is smaller than Exeter St Davids on the west side of the city.
  Great Western Railway manage the station and operate trains on the routes to Barnstaple, Paignton, Exmouth. South Western Railway run trains between St David's and London Waterloo via Exeter Central.
  From 1860, when it opened by the London and South Western Railway, until 1933, when it was rebuilt, it was known as Exeter Queen Street.
context_section_description: Exeter Central is served by trains on the West of England line operated by South Western Railway from London Waterloo station to Exeter St David's. Local services are provided by Great Western Railway on the Avocet Line from Exmouth to Exeter St David's (where they continue to Paignton) and on the Tarka Line from St James Park to Barnstaple.
  On summer Sundays there are also trains to Okehampton in connection with the Dartmoor Sunday Rover network. Occasionally weekend services to Yeovil Junction are operated by Great Western Railway when their route to London Paddington station is closed for engineering work.
caption: A South West Trains service from London (left) and Great Western Railway service to Exmouth (right)
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