- Honiton railway station
Infobox UK station
name = Honiton
code = HON
manager =South West Trains
locale =Honiton
borough =East Devon
usage0405 = 0.256
usage0506 = 0.252
usage0607 = 0.264
platforms = 2
start =19 July 1860 Honiton railway station serves the town of
Honiton in EastDevon , UK. The station is situated on apassing loop of theWest of England Main Line . To the east is Honiton Tunnel and bank. The station is served and managed bySouth West Trains . As the line is not electrified only South West Trains'Diesel Multiple Units can travel down here - Class 159s and 158s.tation building
Honiton railway station has a modern station building, with a small shelter for cover when wet and windy. There are two platforms - with a bridge connecting both, a ticket machine and a car park. Also on platform 2 there is a small 'waiting room'. The original station was designed by the eminent architect Sir
William Tite but was demolished around 1970, an act described as "architectural vandalism"./* Station building */ http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Eowend/interests/rail/stnpages/honitonfront.jpgervice
There is generally an hourly service westbound to Exeter St Davids and eastbound to London Waterloo via Salisbury with a two-hourly service in each direction Sundays. Upgrading of rail tracks and signals will hopefully mean by around 2009 there will be a more frequent service.
External links
References
* Devon Railway Stations, by Mike Oakley, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, 2007, ISBN 1-904-34955-6
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