Tiverton Parkway railway station
Tiverton Parkway 
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| Location | |
| Place | Burlescombe |
| Local authority | Mid Devon |
| Coordinates | 50°55′01″N 3°21′36″W / 50.91700°N 3.36012°WCoordinates: 50°55′01″N 3°21′36″W / 50.91700°N 3.36012°W |
| Grid reference | ST045139 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | TVP |
| Managed by | Great Western Railway |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | D |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.392 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.413 million |
| 2013/14 |
 0.407 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.447 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.478 million |
| History | |
| Original company | British Rail |
| Opened | 12 May 1986 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Tiverton Parkway from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Tiverton Parkway railway station is on the Bristol to Exeter Line in Devon, England. The "Parkway" name signifies that the station is a distance from Tiverton town itself: it is actually located in the civil parish of Burlescombe, near Sampford Peverell, 7 miles (11 km) to the east of Tiverton itself, and close to the junction of the M5 motorway with the A361 North Devon link road. The station is operated by Great Western Railway (formerly First Great Western) and is also served by CrossCountry trains.
The Bristol and Exeter Railway opened on 1 May 1844 but it ran south of Tiverton, so a station known as "Tiverton Road" was opened to serve the town. This station was renamed "Tiverton Junction" on 12 June 1848 when the Tiverton branch line was opened to a station in the town itself. By the 1980s the branch had closed and the Junction station only saw a couple of trains in each direction each day, while cars on the M5 sped past just a few yards from the platforms, so a decision was taken to relocate the station a short distance to the east, close to the motorway junction where traffic from Barnstaple and Ilfracombe from the A361 joined.
Tiverton Junction closed on 11 May 1986 and the new station was opened the following day by David Mitchell MP, the Minister of Transport at the time. It was built by British Rail on the site of the former Sampford Peverell railway station that had closed on 5 October 1964.
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