Newton Abbot railway station

Newton Abbot
The station building of 1927 by Percy Emerson Culverhouse
Location
Place	Newton Abbot
Local authority	Teignbridge
Coordinates	50°31′48″N 3°35′59″W / 50.5300°N 3.5997°W / 50.5300; -3.5997Coordinates: 50°31′48″N 3°35′59″W / 50.5300°N 3.5997°W / 50.5300; -3.5997
Grid reference	SX867712
Operations
Station code	NTA
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Number of platforms	3
DfT category	C1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12	1.088 million
– Interchange	0.307 million
2012/13	1.103 million
– Interchange	0.319 million
2013/14	1.057 million
– Interchange	0.324 million
2014/15	1.141 million
– Interchange	0.327 million
2015/16	1.170 million
– Interchange	0.333 million
History
Original company	South Devon Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
1846	Station opened
1848	Torquay branch opened
1866	Moretonhampstead line opened
1927	Station rebuilt
1940	Station bombed
1959	Moretonhampstead line closed
1987	Station resignalled
National Rail – UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Newton Abbot from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Newton Abbot railway station serves the town of Newton Abbot in Devon, England. It is 193.75 miles (312 km) from London on the Exeter to Plymouth line via the Reading to Taunton line, at the junction for the branch to Paignton. The station today is managed by Great Western Railway, who provide the train service along with CrossCountry.

For many years, it was also the junction for Moretonhampstead and the site of a large locomotive workshop.

The station was opened by the South Devon Railway Company on 30 December 1846 when its line was extended from Teignmouth railway station. It was opened through to Totnes on 20 June 1847 and a branch to Torquay was added on 18 December 1848. The Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway opened its branch line on 26 June 1866. All these railways used the 7 ft (2,134 mm) broad gauge.

Approaching the station from the town along Queen Street, people first saw the large goods shed. On the opposite side of the line was the pumping house for the atmospheric railway system that powered the trains for a short while. The passenger station was situated to the south of these buildings. It originally consisted to two – later three – small train sheds covering separate platforms for trains running in each direction to Exeter, Plymouth, and Torquay. It was rebuilt in 1861 as a single station with a larger train shed covering all three platforms.