Lympstone Commando railway station is a railway station on the branch line from Exeter to Exmouth in Devon, England.
The station is a rare example of a passenger station not open to the general public; it is exclusively for the use of visitors to the Royal Marine Commando Training Centre at Lympstone, although the Ministry of Defence have accepted that it is the property of Network Rail, and as such they cannot prohibit members of the public from alighting at the station, although there is no exit other than the guarded exit to the camp.
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