Taunton service 387, via Ottery, serves Sidmouth & Honiton High St.. Whimple service 382, via Ottery, serves Sidmouth & Feniton/Whimple stations. Freight facilities were withdrawn on 27 January 1964. It is said that this was to deter day-trippers who, it was felt, would lower the tone of the town.
Between the gable of the station house and another gabled office section was a short canopy over the entrance to afford protection from the weather. View live departures and arrivals for Feniton, station facilities, accessibility information and book cheap train tickets.
When the line opened, the passenger train service comprised seven trains each way six days a week, taking 28 to 30 minutes for the journey. These are the lines and routes that have stops nearby - Bus: 9, 9A. You can also get to Waitrose, Sidmouth by Bus or Train. It burned down on 7 January 1900 and was replaced later that year with a brick building on the same site. The range of buildings began at the southern end with the station house, with a pitched roof, placed transverse to the platform and embellished with a pair of gablets under which were arched window openings on the upper floor. The Station Master at Sidmouth Station personally met the train, welcoming passengers to the town and instructing his staff to reunite the pony with the trap.
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Passenger traffic was withdrawn on 6 Match 1967 but coal traffic continued until 9 May 1967.The line was built and owned by the Sidmouth Railway Company but operated on its behalf by the L&SWR, with traffic running down the Otter valley from Sidmouth Junction to Ottery St Mary and Tipton St Johns and then over the steeply graded section to Sidmouth. Goods sidings were provided on A fourth siding, also to the west of the station, ran over a turntable into an engine shed.
After passengers have left an arriving train it has to be pushed back out of the platform to allow the locomotive to uncouple and run onto the shed line. However, to extend the line to the coast would have required a steep gradient.The station building was Italianate in style and incorporated a stationmaster's house, booking office, waiting rooms, toilets and station offices. Initially there was a total of seven trains ran daily taking 30 minutes for the journey; this reached a peak of 24 services each way in the 1930sAlthough the company remained independent until 1912 the line was operated by the London & South Western Railway who built an extension from Budleigh Salterton to Exmouth; this opened on 1 June 1903, with an intermediate station at Littleham on the outskirts of Exmouth. Reopening Sidmouth station is a vision for a cleaner Devon, support jobs and boost economy. The line was part of the Southern Railway, a branch off the Salisbury to Exeter route (West of England Main Line) at Sidmouth Junction. For details of ticket prices and bus information, It travelled to the Sidmouth station for a naming ceremony on 27 th June 1946. We make riding on public transit to Waitrose, Sidmouth easy, which is why over 720 million users, including users in East Devon trust Moovit as the best app for public transit. 34010 Sidmouth was first based at Exmouth Junction loco shed, now the site of Morrisons supermarket in Exeter. Ramp for train access Yes Step free access coverage Yes Step free access note Step Free Category A Station - This station has step free access to all platforms via lifts and the station subway. Although traffic was never heavy it remained steady and was sufficiently high for the Sidmouth Railway to retain its independence until 1923 when it was absorbed into the Southern Railway.
A passenger train awaits departure from the short platform line at Sidmouth station in August 1963. Passenger numbers on the branch remained healthy well into the 1950s, although rationalisation in the 1960 reduced the line to little more than a skeleton service with diesel multiple units introduced on 4 November 1963. Sidmouth railway station was a fully operational station located in Sidmouth, Devon, England until its closure in 1967. Because the line was exclusively worked by tank engines, the turntable was taken out in 1932, six Although passenger numbers dropped during the 1950s Sidmouth still handled a reasonable quantity of goods traffic, with one daily goods train from Sidmouth Junction until the withdrawal of goods traffic from 6 September 1965 when the yard was downgraded to a coal depot only.
The station is largely intact, including the south end of the platform and canopy and forecourt canopies. The station was some considerable distance from the sea front.
Through passenger trains were withdrawn at the end of the 1966 summer season, and both branches closed to passenger traffic on 6 March 1967.
Freight traffic to Sidmouth survived for a further two months with complete closure from 8 May 1967. Station plan. View larger version Stations made easy This line has no run-round facility.
All buses serve Honiton High St, normally before the station.