Trains to Bodmin Parkway - Station Details and further Information on Bodmin Parkway Train Services
Bodmin Parkway train station is a station on the Cornish Main Line and serves the nearby town of Bodmin, Cornwall, United Kingdom. The station is 27 miles west of Plymouth.
The station is situated south of the town with the Bodmin and Wenford steam railway operating the branch to the town. First Great Western operate the station along with every other mainline station in Cornwall. Both local and long-distance trains, including the Night Riviera sleeper service, call at the station.
The entrance is on the platform served by trains to Penzance. A second platform is reached by footbridge which is served by trains to Plymouth and Paddington. The opposite side of this platform is for the trains of the Bodmin and Wenford steam railway.
The bus link to Bodmin, Wadebridge and Padstow starts from outside the main entrance. Visitors to Lanhydrock House should turn right outside the station and follow the path that leads under the railway line.
Bodmin Parkway is served by most First Great Western trains on the trains on the Cornish Main Line between Penzance and Plymouth. Some trains run through to or from London Paddington station, including the Night Riviera overnight sleeping car service and the Golden Hind which offers an early morning service to London and an evening return. Other fast trains are the mid-morning Cornish Riviera and the afternoon Royal Duchy.
There are a limited number of CrossCountry trains providing a service to Scotland in the morning and returning in the evening, and on summer weekends to Newquay, most of which run non-stop from Bodmin Parkway to Newquay. One of the local services to Penzance each weekend runs from and to London Waterloo station and is operated by South West Trains but from December 2009 this company will stop operating services west of Exeter. |