St James' Park train station
You can reach 43 stations directly from St James' Park on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Digby and Sowton, with 54 trains a day.
St James' Park is the nearest station for postcodes in EX4. Check your own postcode.
Direct trains from St James' Park
Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.
| Destination | Weekday | Saturday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digby and Sowton | 54 | 57 | 30 |
| Exeter Central | 54 | 57 | 32 |
| Exeter St Davids | 54 | 57 | 32 |
| Exmouth | 54 | 57 | 30 |
| Lympstone Village | 54 | 57 | 30 |
| Newcourt | 54 | 57 | 30 |
| Topsham | 54 | 57 | 30 |
| Polsloe Bridge | 53 | 56 | 30 |
| Exton | 52 | 55 | 30 |
| Lympstone Commando | 52 | 55 | 30 |
| Dawlish | 45 | 48 | 15 |
| Newton Abbot | 45 | 48 | 15 |
| Paignton | 45 | 48 | 15 |
| Teignmouth | 45 | 48 | 15 |
| Torquay | 45 | 48 | 15 |
| Torre | 45 | 48 | 15 |
| Dawlish Warren | 34 | 47 | 15 |
| Marsh Barton | 31 | 30 | 13 |
| Exeter St Thomas | 29 | 30 | 13 |
| Starcross | 29 | 30 | 13 |
| Barnstaple | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Bristol Temple Meads | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Bridgwater | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Crediton | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Copplestone | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Eggesford | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Highbridge and Burnham | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Kings Nympton | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Lapford | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Morchard Road | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Nailsea and Backwell | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Taunton | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Umberleigh | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Worle | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Weston-super-Mare | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Yatton | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Yeoford | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Cardiff Central | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Filton Abbey Wood | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Newton St Cyres | 1 | 0 | 1 |
and 3 more stations, each served less often.
Lines serving St James' Park
St James' Park is on the West of England Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.
Freight through St James' Park station, hour by hour
No freight is booked through or alongside St James' Park station in the week beginning 12 October 2026. Freight paths stay in the national timetable even when they run only as required, so a station with none booked is one that goods trains do not pass.
How busy St James' Park station is
145,446 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,563rd busiest station in Great Britain.
More journeys run between St James' Park and Exmouth than any other pair: 31,226 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: 23 stations instead of 43, a drop of about 47%. Saturday runs to 20.
Nearest other stations
- Exeter Central 0.5 miles
- Polsloe Bridge 0.9 miles
- Exeter St Davids 0.9 miles
- Exeter St Thomas 1.2 miles
- Marsh Barton 1.8 miles
Closed stations nearby
Former stations within 8 km of St James' Park, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.
- Monkerton · 1.8 miles
- Alphington Halt · 2.0 miles
- Ide Halt · 2.7 miles
- Broad Clyst · 4.1 miles
- Longdown · 4.8 miles
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Facilities at St James' Park station
St James' Park is unstaffed, with step-free access to part of the station.
Cycle parking: 4 spaces (compounds).
From National Rail's station record, last updated 13 February 2026.
Getting to St James' Park station
St James' Park station is in Exeter, South West, and is run by Great Western Railway.
The nearest motorway junction is M5 J29 (Sowton Interchange), 2.7 miles east.
5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Blackall Road.
Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.
St James' Park 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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