Teignmouth
General information
Location	Teignmouth,Teignbridge,Devon England
Coordinates	50°32′53″N3°29′42″W / 50.548°N 3.495°W /50.548; -3.495
Grid reference	SX942731
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	TGM
Classification	DfT category D
History
Original company	South Devon Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
Opened	1846
Rebuilt	1895
Passengers
2019/20	0.691 million
2020/21	0.269 million
2021/22	0.607 million
2022/23	0.691 million
2023/24	0.728 million
Notes Passenger statistics from theOffice of Rail and Road

Teignmouth railway station is on theExeter to Plymouth line and serves the seaside town ofTeignmouth inDevon,England. It is located 208 miles 70 chains (336 km) fromLondon Paddington, viaBox.^[1] It is operated byGreat Western Railway and is the third-busiest station on theRiviera Line afterExeter St Davids andNewton Abbot.

The station was opened by the South Devon Railway Company on 30 May 1846, as the terminus of its first section fromExeter.^[2] The line was extended toNewton Abbot on 31 December 1846. The single platform was augmented by a second one late in 1848. At this time it was a7 ft (2,134 mm)broad gauge railway.

Teignmouth was the original headquarters of the South Devon Railway, the station and offices being described as a "primitive apology for a station" and dubbed locally as the 'Noah's Ark'.^[3]

Trains were worked from Exeter byatmospheric power from 13 September 1847 and these were extended to Newton Abbot from 17 December 1847, until all the atmospheric trains were suspended on 9 September 1848.^[4] Theatmospheric engine house was situated adjacent to the platform on the side furthest from the town, the area then being used aspermanent way workshops until about 1876.

The South Devon Railway was amalgamated into theGreat Western Railway on 1 February 1876. When it was first built, the station was situated between two tunnels; however, the West Tunnel was opened out by June 1881 and the Eastcliffe Tunnel leading to theSea Wall was removed by 1884, when the distinctive lattice girder bridge at the end of the Sea Wall was installed.

On 20 May 1892, the line was converted to4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)standard gauge. The station was completely rebuilt soon after, the work being completed early in 1895. It now had a similar scale of facilities as those found at other bigWest Country resorts which had new stations during the last quarter of the century,Torquay andWeston-super-Mare. To accommodate longer trains, the westbound platform was extended in 1938 and could then handle 15 coach trains, but the opposite platform could not be extended due to the entrance to the goods yard.

The Great Western Railway in turn wasnationalised intoBritish Railways on 1 January 1948. General goods traffic at Teignmouth ceased on 14 June 1965, but coal traffic continued to be handled until 4 December 1967.^[5] This allowed the extension of the second platform to the length ofInterCity trains, although this did not happen until 1981. Thesignal box, which was built at the west end of the westbound platform in 1896, was closed on 14 November 1986 when the new Panel Signal Box at Exeter took over control of the line.

The station was closed for two months during the repair of the railway and sea wall at Dawlish caused by the great storm of February 2014. The iron work supporting the roof was repainted during this period. Refurbishment of the pedestrian bridge between the platforms commenced in 2016.

The station is situated near the edge of the town centre, a short walk from the beach andSouth West Coast Path.

The main entrance and booking office are on the westbound platform; all of the main facilities, including a café, are situated here. The booking office is open six days a week; when closed, access to the station is through the gates adjacent to the wide footbridge which links the two platforms.

The station has ticket machines, waiting rooms, toilets and an 80-space car park.^[6]

Teignmouth is served by four routes:

• Great Western Railway (GWR) operates a regular service betweenExmouth andPaignton. These stop approximately half-hourly in each direction throughout the day; on Sundays, the service is less frequent and many trains only run betweenExeter St Davids and Paignton.^[7]
• GWR runs services betweenCardiff Central,Bristol Temple Meads,Plymouth andPenzance; some of these trains stop here
• GWR also runs services betweenLondon Paddington, Paignton, Plymouth and Penzance; some of these trains stop here
• CrossCountry operates two services per day in each direction betweenManchester Piccadilly and Paignton that stop at Teignmouth.^[8]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Newton Abbot towardsPaignton		Great Western Railway Riviera Line		Dawlish towardsExeter St Davids
Newton Abbot		CrossCountry Cornwall-Scotland		Dawlish

Wikimedia Commons has media related toTeignmouth railway station.

• Beck, Keith; Copsey, John (1990).The Great Western in South Devon. Didcot: Wild Swan Publication.ISBN 0-906867-90-8.
• Cooke, RA (1984).Track Layout Diagrams of the GWR and BR WR, Section 14: South Devon. Harwell: RA Cooke.

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