Plymouth railway station
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Plymouth railway station

Station information
PlacePlymouth
Local authorityPlymouth
Station information
Station codePLY
Managed byFirst Great Western
Platforms in use6
History
Original companyGWR and LSWR Joint
Post-groupingGWR and SR Joint
1877Opened
1938Rebuilding started
1958"North Road" name dropped
1962Rebuilding completed

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Plymouth railway station serves the city of Plymouth, Devon, England. It is situated on the northern edge of the city centre close to the North Cross roundabout. It has the largest number of passengers starting and finishing their journeys at any station in the county, and is the largest of the six surviving railway stations in the city, being the only one served by InterCity trains.

Originally named Plymouth North Road, it was opened in 1877 as a joint station for the Great Western Railway (GWR) and the London and South Western Railway (LSWR). It was expanded in 1908 but a major rebuilding scheme that started in 1938 was delayed by the Second World War and was not completed until 1962. John Betjeman commented unfavourably on its new form in his introduction to The Book of the Great Western:

::Plymouth (North Road) dullest of stations and no less dull now it has been rebuilt in copybook contemporary.

It is currently operated by First Great Western, being located on their London to Penzance Line 225.75 mi (363.3 km) from London Paddington station, but also sees trains operated by CrossCountry. The Panel Signal Box at the station controls all trains between Totnes railway station in Devon, and Liskeard railway station in Cornwall.


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2002 - 03 2004 - 05 2005 - 06 2006 - 07 2007 - 08 2008 - 09
Entries 721,187 767,066 822,804 929,105 1,018,941 1,344,641
Exits 710,487 751,945 806,207 916,808 1,007,910 1,344,640
Interchanges unknown 55,154 68,832 77,728 61,934 133,496
Total 1,431,674 1,585,165 1,697,843 1,923,686 2,088,785 2,822,777



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