Marsh Barton train station
You can reach 28 stations directly from Marsh Barton on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Dawlish, with 45 trains a day.
Marsh Barton is the nearest station for postcodes in EX2. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from Marsh Barton
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dawlish | 45 | 44 | 30 |
| Exeter St Davids | 45 | 44 | 30 |
| Newton Abbot | 45 | 44 | 30 |
| Paignton | 45 | 44 | 30 |
| Teignmouth | 45 | 44 | 30 |
| Torquay | 45 | 44 | 30 |
| Torre | 45 | 44 | 30 |
| Digby and Sowton | 41 | 37 | 29 |
| Exeter Central | 41 | 37 | 29 |
| Exmouth | 41 | 37 | 29 |
| Lympstone Village | 41 | 37 | 29 |
| Newcourt | 41 | 37 | 25 |
| Topsham | 41 | 37 | 29 |
| Dawlish Warren | 36 | 43 | 30 |
| Exeter St Thomas | 34 | 34 | 30 |
| Starcross | 34 | 33 | 30 |
| Polsloe Bridge | 32 | 29 | 13 |
| St James' Park | 31 | 30 | 13 |
| Exton | 30 | 28 | 13 |
| Lympstone Commando | 30 | 35 | 13 |
| Barnstaple | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Crediton | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Copplestone | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Eggesford | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Morchard Road | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Newton St Cyres | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Umberleigh | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Yeoford | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Lines serving Marsh Barton
Marsh Barton 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 Marsh Barton station, hour by hour
Freight is booked through or alongside Marsh Barton 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 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.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
How busy Marsh Barton station is
108,848 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,722nd busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between Marsh Barton and Exmouth than any other pair: 12,330 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: 20 stations instead of 28, a drop of about 29%. Saturday runs to 26.
Nearest other stations
- Exeter St Thomas 1.2 miles
- Exeter Central 1.6 miles
- St James' Park 1.8 miles
- Exeter St Davids 2.0 miles
- Polsloe Bridge 2.0 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of Marsh Barton, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Alphington Halt · 0.7 miles
- Ide Halt · 1.8 miles
- Monkerton · 2.3 miles
- Longdown · 4.4 miles
- Broad Clyst · 4.9 miles
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Facilities at Marsh Barton station
Marsh Barton is unstaffed, with step-free access to the whole station.
Waiting room · WiFi
Cycle parking: 40 spaces (sheltered, stands).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 February 2026.
Getting to Marsh Barton station
Marsh Barton station is in Exeter, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M5 J31 (Pearce's Hill), 1.6 miles south.
2 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Grace Road.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
Marsh Barton 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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