Keyham railway station

Keyham
Location
Place	Keyham
Local authority	Plymouth
Coordinates	50°23′24″N 4°10′47″W / 50.39008°N 4.17984°W / 50.39008; -4.17984Coordinates: 50°23′24″N 4°10′47″W / 50.39008°N 4.17984°W / 50.39008; -4.17984
Operations
Station code	KEY
Managed by	First Great Western
Platforms in use	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *	8,957
2004/05 *	6,374
2005/06 *	7,594
2006/07 *	7,976
2007/08 *	5,055
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Opened	1900
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Keyham from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Keyham railway station is a suburban rail station in the city of Plymouth, England. It is served by First Great Western services between Plymouth and Gunnislake and a very few on the Cornish Main Line to Saltash and beyond.

The entrance is on the platform served by trains to Gunnislake. A second platform is reached by footbridge that is served by trains to Plymouth.

The station is close to the Devonport dockyard.

History

Keyham station from a Gunnislake bound train in 1970.

This station was opened by the Great Western Railway on 1 June 1900.^[1] The goods facilities were used for marshalling trains to and from the Cornwall Railway branch into the naval dockyard, opened on 20 June 1867, which enters the dockyard between the station and Weston Mill viaduct.^[2]

The Cornwall Railway was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway on 1 July 1889. The Great Western Railway was nationalised into British Railways from 1 January 1948 which was in turn privatised in the 1990s.

Services

Keyham is served by Tamar Valley Line services from Plymouth to Gunnislake,^[3] and also by a few trains on the Cornish Main Line to and from Penzance, some of which continue eastwards beyond Plymouth towards Exeter St Davids.^[4]

Trains only stop on request – this means that passengers alighting here must tell the conductor that they wish to do so, and those waiting to join must signal clearly to the driver as the train approaches.

Community railway

The railway from Plymouth to Gunnislake is designated as a community railway and is supported by marketing provided by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership. The line is promoted under the "Tamar Valley Line" name. It is also part of the Dartmoor Sunday Rover network of integrated bus and rail routes.

References

Further reading

• Beck, Keith; Copsey, John (1990). The Great Western in South Devon. Didcot: Wild Swan Publication. ISBN 0-906867-90-8. 
• Cooke, R A (1979). Track Layout Diagrams of the GWR and BR WR: Section 12, Plymouth. Harwell: R A Cooke. 
• Crozier, Larry (2000). Mechanical Signalling in Plymouth. Wallasey: Signalling Record Society. ISBN 1-873228-18-X. 
• Jacobs, Gerald (2005). Railway Track Diagrams Book 3: Western. Bradford-on-Avon: Trackmaps. ISBN 0-954986-61-X. 
• Leitch, Russell (2002). Plymouth's Railways in the 1930s. Peterborough: Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. ISBN 0-901115-91-6. 
• Mosley, Brian. "Keyham Station". Encyclopedia of Plymouth History. Plymouth Data. http://www.plymouthdata.info/Railways-Keyham%20Station.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-22. 

External links

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• British Railway Stations - Photographs of Keyham