Plymouth railway station
Plymouth 
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| Location | |
| Place | Plymouth |
| Local authority | Plymouth |
| Coordinates | 50°22′40″N 4°08′35″W / 50.3778°N 4.1430°WCoordinates: 50°22′40″N 4°08′35″W / 50.3778°N 4.1430°W |
| Grid reference | SX476553 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | PLY |
| Managed by | Great Western Railway |
| Number of platforms | 6 |
| DfT category | C1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 2.597 million |
| – Interchange |
0.105 million |
| 2012/13 |
 2.579 million |
| – Interchange |
0.100 million |
| 2013/14 |
2.445 million |
| – Interchange |
88,488 |
| 2014/15 |
2.495 million |
| – Interchange |
93,423 |
| 2015/16 |
2.488 million |
| – Interchange |
95,082 |
| History | |
| Original company | GWR and LSWR Joint |
| Post-grouping | GWR and SR Joint |
| 1877 | Opened |
| 1938 | Rebuilding started |
| 1958 | "North Road" name dropped |
| 1962 | Rebuilding completed |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Plymouth from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Plymouth railway station serves the city of Plymouth, Devon, England. It is on the northern edge of the city centre, close to the North Cross roundabout. It has the largest number of passengers starting and finishing their journeys at any station in the county of Devon, and is the largest of the six surviving stations in the city, being the only one served by InterCity trains.
The station is managed by Great Western Railway, being on the Exeter to Plymouth line, 245 miles 75 chains (395.8 km) down-line from London Paddington via the Great Western Main Line. Plymouth is also the junction for the Cornish Main Line to Penzance and the Tamar Valley Line to Gunnislake. Services are operated by Great Western Railway and CrossCountry. The Panel Signal Box at the station controls all trains between (but not at) Totnes in Devon, and Liskeard in Cornwall.
Originally named Plymouth North Road, it was opened in 1877 as a joint station for the Great Western Railway (GWR) and the London and South Western Railway (LSWR). It was expanded in 1908 but a major rebuilding scheme that started in 1938 was delayed by the Second World War and was not completed until 1962. John Betjeman commented unfavourably on its new form in his introduction to The Book of the Great Western: Plymouth (North Road) dullest of stations and no less dull now it has been rebuilt in copybook contemporary.
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