Exeter St Davids train station
Exeter St Davids is a major interchange: 141 stations can be reached from here without changing on a weekday, more than almost anywhere else on the network. The most frequent is Newton Abbot, with 201 trains a day.
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Address: Bonhay Road, Exeter, EX4 4NT
- 141 direct destinations
- 185th busiest in Britain
- Staffed full time
- Step-free throughout
- 435 parking spaces
- 4 bus stops nearby
Direct trains from Exeter St Davids
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newton Abbot | 201 | 153 | 122 |
| Taunton | 141 | 95 | 90 |
| Exeter Central | 139 | 141 | 105 |
| Plymouth | 117 | 78 | 81 |
| Tiverton Parkway | 114 | 75 | 76 |
| Totnes | 109 | 75 | 80 |
| Dawlish | 106 | 95 | 58 |
| Teignmouth | 106 | 95 | 58 |
| Bristol Temple Meads | 98 | 60 | 57 |
| Paignton | 84 | 75 | 41 |
| Torquay | 84 | 75 | 41 |
| Torre | 77 | 71 | 36 |
| London Paddington | 74 | 40 | 46 |
| Reading | 74 | 40 | 46 |
| Digby and Sowton | 72 | 69 | 50 |
| Exmouth | 72 | 69 | 50 |
| Lympstone Village | 72 | 69 | 50 |
| Newcourt | 72 | 69 | 46 |
| Topsham | 72 | 69 | 50 |
| Crediton | 64 | 65 | 52 |
| Bodmin Parkway | 60 | 35 | 40 |
| Liskeard | 60 | 35 | 40 |
| Penzance | 60 | 35 | 40 |
| Redruth | 60 | 35 | 40 |
| St Austell | 60 | 35 | 40 |
| Truro | 60 | 35 | 40 |
| Dawlish Warren | 58 | 72 | 36 |
| Par | 58 | 35 | 36 |
| Camborne | 56 | 35 | 37 |
| Polsloe Bridge | 55 | 56 | 32 |
| St Erth | 54 | 34 | 40 |
| St James' Park | 54 | 57 | 32 |
| Exton | 53 | 55 | 32 |
| Lympstone Commando | 53 | 67 | 32 |
| Exeter St Thomas | 51 | 51 | 31 |
| Starcross | 50 | 50 | 31 |
| Marsh Barton | 45 | 44 | 30 |
| Saltash | 41 | 20 | 16 |
| Ivybridge | 39 | 25 | 20 |
| Bristol Parkway | 36 | 29 | 27 |
and 101 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Exeter St Davids
Exeter St Davids is on the Great Western Main Line, the West of England Line, the South Devon Main Line and the Bristol to Exeter Line, each of which has its own page with the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through Exeter St Davids station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Exeter St Davids station on 55 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 13 paths on the Wednesday, 6 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 17:00 to 18:00 on the Wednesday, 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Exeter St Davids station is
2,922,288 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 185th busiest station in Great Britain.
A further 1,524,885 passengers changed trains here without entering or leaving the station.
More journeys run between Exeter St Davids and London Paddington than any other pair: 491,332 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: 112 stations instead of 141, a drop of about 21%. Saturday runs to 112.
Changing from 14 April 2027
From 14 April 2027, Exeter St Davids gains 11 destinations including Leuchars, Cupar, Ladybank, Markinch, Dundee, Aberdeen and loses 1 including Keynsham.
Nearest other stations
- Exeter Central 0.5 miles
- Exeter St Thomas 0.9 miles
- St James' Park 0.9 miles
- Polsloe Bridge 1.8 miles
- Marsh Barton 2.0 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Exeter St Davids, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Alphington Halt · 1.8 miles
- Ide Halt · 2.1 miles
- Monkerton · 2.7 miles
- Longdown · 4.0 miles
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Facilities at Exeter St Davids station
Exeter St Davids is staffed full time, with step-free access to the whole station.
Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 05:45 to 20:40 · Saturday: 06:15 to 20:00 · Sunday: 07:30 to 20:40
Toilets · WiFi
Parking at Exeter St Davids station
- Station Car Park 435 spaces, 6 accessible
Cycle parking: 175 spaces (sheltered, racks).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 5 September 2026.
Getting to Exeter St Davids station
Exeter St Davids station is in Exeter, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M5 J31 (Pearce's Hill), 3.5 miles south-east.
4 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being St Davids Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Exeter St Davids 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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