The South Devon Main Line
The South Devon Main Line runs for 51.9 miles between Exeter St Davids and Plymouth, serving 11 stations, with a top line speed of 100 mph.
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The line in numbers
| Length | 51.9 miles end to end |
|---|---|
| Track | about 76 miles, counting every running line |
| Stations | 11 |
| Top line speed | 100 mph |
| Passengers a year | 10.0 million entries and exits across its stations |
Stations on this line
- Exeter St Davids2.9 million a year
- Exeter St Thomas329,086 a year
- Marsh Barton108,848 a year
- Starcross107,218 a year
- Dawlish Warren248,086 a year
- Dawlish580,660 a year
- Teignmouth760,568 a year
- Newton Abbot1.3 million a year
- Totnes797,324 a year
- Ivybridge136,994 a year
- Plymouth2.7 million a year
The busiest station on the line is Exeter St Davids, 2.9 million entries and exits a year and 185th busiest in Britain.
Lines it meets
Bristol to Exeter Line, Cornish Main Line, Great Western Main Line, West of England Line.
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.