Trains to Lympstone Commando - Station Details and further Information on Lympstone Commando Train Services
Lympstone Commando train station is a train station on the branch line from Exeter to Exmouth in Devon, England. The station is a rare example of a passenger station not open to the general public: it is exclusively for the use of visitors to the Royal Marine Commando Training Centre at Lympstone.
The station is situated on the banks of the estuary of the River Exe. It consists of a single platform , which is on the left of trains arriving from Exeter. Access to the commando base is by way of an armed sentry post – this is the only access to and from the platform.
About half the trains on the Avocet Line from Exmouth to Exeter St Davids call at Lympstone Commando – this means that passengers alighting here must tell the conductor that they wish to do so, and those waiting to join must signal clearly to the driver as the train approaches.
Beyond Exeter St Davids they generally continue to either Paignton or Barnstaple. Connections are available at Exeter Central for Pinhoe and stations to Waterloo; passengers for other main line stations change at St Davids.
Note that only people having business at the commando base are allowed to board or alight at this station. Passengers for Lympstone itself must use Lympstone Village railway station. |
