Keyham railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Keyham


manager = First Great Western
locale = Keyham
borough = Plymouth
latitude = 50.39008
longitude = -4.17984
platforms = 2
code = KEY
original = Great Western Railway
years = Opened
events = 1900
lowusage0203 = 8,957
lowusage0405 = 6,374
lowusage0506 = 7,594
lowusage0607 = 7,976

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

This station was opened by the Great Western Railway on 1 June 1900. [cite book| last = Oakley| first = Mike| title = Devon Railway Stations| publisher = The Dovecote Press| date = 2007| location = Wimbourne| id = ISBN 1-904349-55-6] 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. [cite book| last = Burkhalter| first = Paul| title = Devonport Dockyard Railway| publisher = Twelveheads Press| date = 1996| location = Truro| id = ISBN 0-90629-437-1]

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.

ervices

Keyham is served by Tamar Valley Line services from Plymouth to Gunnislake, [cite web |title = National Rail Timetable 139 (Summer 2008)|publisher= Network Rail|url = http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/eNRT/May08/timetables/Table139.pdf|format=PDF|accessdate=2008-05-30] 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. [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|accessdate=2008-05-30]

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

*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 =Keyham Station | work =Encyclopedia of Plymouth History | publisher =Plymouth Data | url =http://www.plymouthdata.info/Railways-Keyham%20Station.htm | accessdate = 2008-08-22

External links

* [http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/interests/rail/stnpages/keyham.html British Railway Stations - Photographs of Keyham]