Crediton railway station
Crediton 
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| Location | |
| Place | Crediton |
| Local authority | Mid Devon |
| Coordinates | 50°46′59″N 3°38′49″W / 50.78318°N 3.64707°WCoordinates: 50°46′59″N 3°38′49″W / 50.78318°N 3.64707°W |
| Grid reference | SX840994 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CDI |
| Managed by | Great Western Railway |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 48,978 |
| 2012/13 |
 43,106 |
| 2013/14 |
50,342 |
| 2014/15 |
52,492 |
| 2015/16 |
55,112 |
| History | |
| Original company | Exeter and Crediton Railway |
| Pre-grouping | London and South Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Southern Railway |
| Opened | 1851 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Crediton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Crediton railway station is a railway station serving the town of Crediton in Devon, England.
It is the current junction of the Tarka and Dartmoor lines, though the two lines run parallel until Coleford Junction (where the junction of the Barnstaple and Okehampton lines used to be) at Penstone near Coleford (west of Yeoford).
The station, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was opened by the Exeter and Crediton Railway on 12 May 1851. The line to Barnstaple was then opened by the North Devon Railway on 1 August 1854. After 1 November 1865 additional London and South Western Railway trains ran through the station going towards Okehampton.
The signal box which controls the level crossing was put into use on the 2 June 1875, and the footbridge built in 1878. It now controls the entire Tarka Line from just north of the Cowley Bridge Junction with the Bristol to Exeter line, all the way to Barnstaple, although most of the line uses the No Signalman Token Remote (NSTR) system. Under this method of operation only a single train is allowed into each section, so not much signal control is actually required.
The creamery and dairy in Crediton is located next to the church, but the company's transport depot was located in Hoskin's Yard next to the station. Every day, a train of three or more Milk Tank Wagons would be filled from lorries, and then taken to London by either the GWR or the SR. Express Dairies sold the creamery and a similar unit in Kirkcudbright, Scotland in July 2002 to Milk Link, which by that time produced UHT milk.
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