Exeter St Davids Railway Station - Services

Services

There are two direct routes from St Davids to London. The main line is generally considered to be the First Great Western service over the Bristol to Exeter line, but there is also a service operated by South West Trains on their West of England Main Line to London Waterloo. The station is one of the few that have trains to London departing in opposite directions at either end of the station – those to Paddington leave northwards while those to Waterloo head south but turn eastwards just outside the station. Further long-distance services are operated by CrossCountry to Birmingham New Street, the North of England and Scotland.

Three local routes converge at St Davids – the Avocet Line from Exmouth, the Tarka Line from Barnstaple, and the Riviera Line from Paignton. Trains from Exmouth generally continue to either Barnstaple or Paignton to provide a cross-Exeter service.

In addition to this core daytime pattern there are a number of other, less frequent, services including the Night Riviera sleeping car service from London Paddington to Penzance. On summer Sundays services are operated over the Tarka Line and then on an otherwise goods-only line to Okehampton on the Dartmoor Railway, a the steam hauled “Torbay Express” calls on its weekly run to Paignton and Kingswear on the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway.