St Budeaux Victoria Road railway station
St Budeaux Victoria Road 
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| Location | |
| Place | St Budeaux |
| Local authority | Plymouth |
| Coordinates | 50°24′08″N 4°11′16″W / 50.40210°N 4.18765°WCoordinates: 50°24′08″N 4°11′16″W / 50.40210°N 4.18765°W |
| Grid reference | SX446581 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | SBV |
| Managed by | Great Western Railway |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 7,780 |
| 2012/13 |
7,918 |
| 2013/14 |
8,606 |
| 2014/15 |
10,332 |
| 2015/16 |
10,376 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1890 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at St Budeaux Victoria Road from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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St Budeaux Victoria Road railway station is a suburban station in St Budeaux, Plymouth, Devon, England. The station is managed and served by Great Western Railway.
The Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway opened its St Budeaux station on 2 June 1890 with its main line from Lydford to Devonport, which gave the London and South Western Railway a route into Plymouth that was independent of the Great Western Railway. The station was close to the road to the Saltash ferry across the River Tamar.
A connection to the Great Western Railway was installed east of the station on 21 March 1941 to offer the two companies alternative routes between Plymouth and St Budeaux should either line be closed due to bombing during World War II. On 7 September 1964 the original line into Devonport was closed, and all trains use the former Great Western route and the wartime connection to reach St Budeaux, renamed St Budeaux Victoria Road to differentiate it from St Budeaux Ferry Road, opened by the Great Western Railway on 1 June 1904.
The line from St Budeaux to Bere Alston was singled on 7 September 1970, services having ceased beyond there (towards and Okehampton) in May 1968.
There is a single platform, on the left of trains arriving from Plymouth.
Trains heading towards Bere Alston must collect the branch train staff from a secure cabinet on the platform before proceeding, as the line is operated on the One Train Working system with only a single unit allowed on the branch at a time. Conversely the staff has to be returned to the cabinet by the driver on the return journey before the unit can leave the branch and return to Plymouth. This operation was shown in an episode of the Channel 5 documentary series "The Railway - First Great Western" in October 2013.
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