Dawlish train station

You can reach 89 stations directly from Dawlish on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Exeter St Davids, with 106 trains a day.

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• 89 direct destinations
• 806th busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free throughout
• 89 parking spaces
• 5 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Dawlish

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 49 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Dawlish

Dawlish is on the South Devon Main Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Dawlish station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Dawlish station on 55 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 13 paths on the Wednesday, 5 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 1 of them runs whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 14:00 to 15:00 on the Thursday, with 4 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Dawlish station is

580,660 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 806th busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Dawlish and Exeter Central than any other pair: 127,522 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.

Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.

Sundays

Sunday is a different railway here: 68 stations instead of 89, a drop of about 24%. Saturday runs to 70.

Nearest other stations

• Dawlish Warren 1.5 miles
• Teignmouth 2.6 miles
• Starcross 3.3 miles
• Exmouth 3.6 miles
• Lympstone Village 4.9 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Dawlish, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Littleham · 4.5 miles

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Facilities at Dawlish station

Dawlish is staffed part time, with step-free access to the whole station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 07:05 to 19:00 · Saturday: 07:00 to 14:00 · Sunday: closed

Toilets · Waiting room

Parking at Dawlish station

• Station Car Park 89 spaces, 3 accessible

Cycle parking: 3 spaces (stands).

From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 September 2026.

Getting to Dawlish station

Dawlish station is in Teignbridge, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.

The nearest motorway junction is M5 J31 (Pearce's Hill), 7.2 miles north.

5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Brookdale Terrace.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Dawlish station elsewhere

• National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
• Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
• Wikipedia the station's history
• OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from

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