Exeter St Thomas train station
You can reach 42 stations directly from Exeter St Thomas on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Dawlish, with 51 trains a day.
See Exeter St Thomas on the map
Exeter St Thomas is the nearest station for postcodes in EX6. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Exeter St Thomas
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dawlish | 51 | 51 | 31 |
| Exeter St Davids | 51 | 51 | 31 |
| Newton Abbot | 51 | 51 | 31 |
| Paignton | 51 | 50 | 30 |
| Teignmouth | 51 | 51 | 31 |
| Torquay | 51 | 50 | 30 |
| Torre | 51 | 50 | 30 |
| Starcross | 50 | 49 | 31 |
| Dawlish Warren | 49 | 50 | 31 |
| Digby and Sowton | 43 | 42 | 29 |
| Exeter Central | 43 | 42 | 29 |
| Exmouth | 43 | 42 | 29 |
| Lympstone Village | 43 | 42 | 29 |
| Newcourt | 43 | 42 | 25 |
| Topsham | 43 | 42 | 29 |
| Marsh Barton | 34 | 34 | 30 |
| Polsloe Bridge | 29 | 29 | 13 |
| St James' Park | 29 | 30 | 13 |
| Exton | 27 | 28 | 13 |
| Lympstone Commando | 27 | 40 | 13 |
| Bristol Temple Meads | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Taunton | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Barnstaple | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bridgwater | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Cardiff Central | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Crediton | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Copplestone | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Eggesford | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Filton Abbey Wood | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Highbridge and Burnham | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Morchard Road | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nailsea and Backwell | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Newton St Cyres | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Newport | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Patchway | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Severn Tunnel Junction | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tiverton Parkway | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Umberleigh | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Worle | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Weston-super-Mare | 1 | 1 | 0 |
and 2 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving Exeter St Thomas
Exeter St Thomas is on the Great Western Main Line and the South Devon Main 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 Thomas station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Exeter St Thomas 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 Thomas station is
329,086 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,113th busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Exeter St Thomas and Exmouth than any other pair: 43,244 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.
Nearest other stations
- Exeter Central 0.7 miles
- Exeter St Davids 0.9 miles
- Marsh Barton 1.2 miles
- St James' Park 1.2 miles
- Polsloe Bridge 1.9 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Exeter St Thomas, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Alphington Halt · 0.9 miles
- Ide Halt · 1.5 miles
- Monkerton · 2.5 miles
- Longdown · 3.8 miles
- Dunsford Halt · 4.9 miles
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Facilities at Exeter St Thomas station
Exeter St Thomas is unstaffed, with step-free access to no part of the station.
Cycle parking: 8 spaces (stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 February 2026.
Getting to Exeter St Thomas station
Exeter St Thomas station is in Exeter, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M5 J31 (Pearce's Hill), 2.7 miles south-east.
6 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Railway Station.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Exeter St Thomas 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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