St Budeaux Ferry Road railway station

Infobox UK station


caption = Looking west
name = St Budeaux Ferry Road
manager = First Great Western
platforms = 2
code = SBF
locale = St Budeaux
borough = Plymouth
original = Great Western Railway
years = Opened
events = 1904
latitude = 50.40141
longitude = -4.18680
lowusage0203 = 987
lowusage0405 = 969
lowusage0506 = 1,015
lowusage0607 = 1,037

St Budeaux Ferry Road station is a suburban rail station in St Budeaux, Plymouth, England. It is served by First Great Western services during the rush hour only - the vast majority of services pass through non stop due to the proximity of Victoria Road station (the entrances to the two stations are directly opposite each other). To the west the line singles and crosses into Cornwall on the Royal Albert Bridge.

The station is unstaffed but there is step-free access to both platforms.

History

The station was opened by the Great Western Railway on 1 June 1904. [cite book| last = Oakley| first = Mike| title = Devon Railway Stations| publisher = The Dovecote Press| date = 2007| location = Wimborne| id = ISBN 1-904349-55-6] It was known as St Budeaux Platform until renamed St Budeaux Ferry Road to avoid confusion with the London and South Western Railway station at St Budeaux Victoria Road. The two stations are only a few yards apart.

The reason for the separate stations is due to the two railways taking different routes into the city. A junction was laid between the two lines during World War II but the London and South Western Railway line between St Budeaux and Plymouth was closed in the 1960s.

The Great Western Railway was nationalised into British Railways from 1 January 1948 which was in turn privatised in the 1990s.

ervices

Ferry Road is served by just a small number of First Great Western trains on the Cornish Main Line to and from Penzance, some of which continue eastwards from Plymouth towards Exeter St Davids. [cite web |title = National Rail Timetable 135 (Summer 2008)|publisher= Network Rail|url = http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/eNRT/May08/timetables/Table135.pdf|format=PDF]

A more frequent service to Plymouth operates from St Budeaux Victoria Road railway station which is less than convert|100|yd|-2 away.

References

Further reading

*cite book| last = Beck| first = Keith| coauthor = Copsey, John| title = The Great Western in South Devon| publisher = Wild Swan Publication| date = 1990| location = Didcot| id = ISBN 0-906867-90-8
*cite book| last = Cooke| first = R A| title = Track Layout Diagrams of the GWR and BR WR: Section 12, Plymouth| publisher = R A Cooke| date = 1979| location = Harwell
*cite book| last = Crozier| first = Larry| title = Mechanical Signalling in Plymouth| publisher = Signalling Record Society| date = 2000| location = Wallasey| id = ISBN 1-873228-18-X
*cite book| last = Jacobs| first = Gerald| title = Railway Track Diagrams Book 3: Western| publisher = Trackmaps| date = 2005| location = Bradford-on-Avon| id = ISBN 0-954986-61-X
*cite book| last = Leitch| first = Russell| title = Plymouth's Railways in the 1930s| publisher = Railway Correspondence and Travel Society| date = 2002| location = Peterborough| id = ISBN 0-901115-91-6
*cite web | last =Mosley | first =Brian | title =St Budeaux Ferry Road Station | work =Encyclopedia of Plymouth History | publisher =Plymouth Data | url =http://www.plymouthdata.info/Railways-StBudeaux%20FR%20Station.htm | accessdate = 2008-08-22

External links

* [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/interests/rail/stnpages/stbudeauxferryroad.html British Railway Stations - Photographs of St Budeaux Ferry Road]