Keyham railway station is a suburban station in the city of Plymouth, Devon, England. It is 248 miles 12 chains (399.4 km) from London Paddington via Bristol Temple Meads. The station is close to the Devonport dockyard.

Keyham
General information
Location	Keyham, Plymouth England
Coordinates	50.39008°N 4.17984°W / 50.39008; -4.17984
Grid reference	SX451567
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	KEY
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Key dates
Opened	1900
Passengers
2016/17	9,122
2017/18	7,188
2018/19	7,516
2019/20	7,808
2020/21	3,374
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

The station was opened by the Great Western Railway on 1 June 1900.[1] The goods facilities were used for marshalling trains to and from the Cornwall Railway branch into the naval dockyard, opened on 20 June 1867, which enters the dockyard between the station and Weston Mill viaduct.[2]

The Cornwall Railway was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway on 1 July 1889.

Platform layout

The entrance is on the down platform, served by trains to Gunnislake and Cornwall. The up platform, reached by a footbridge, is served by trains to Plymouth.

Services

Keyham is served by Tamar Valley Line services from Plymouth to Gunnislake,[3] and by a few trains on the Cornish Main Line to and from Penzance, some of which continue eastwards towards Exeter St Davids.[4]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Dockyard		Great Western Railway Cornish Main Line		St Budeaux Ferry Road
		Great Western Railway Tamar Valley Line		St Budeaux Victoria Road

Community railway

The railway from Plymouth to Gunnislake is designated as the "Tamar Valley Line" community railway and is supported by marketing provided by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership. It is part of the Dartmoor Sunday Rover network of integrated bus and rail routes.^{[may be outdated as of March 2022]}

References

Bibliography

• Beck, Keith; Copsey, John (1990). The Great Western in South Devon. Didcot: Wild Swan Publication. ISBN 0-906867-90-8.
• Cooke, R A (1979). Track Layout Diagrams of the GWR and BR WR: Section 12, Plymouth. Harwell: R A Cooke.
• Crozier, Larry (2000). Mechanical Signalling in Plymouth. Wallasey: Signalling Record Society. ISBN 1-873228-18-X.
• Jacobs, Gerald (2005). Railway Track Diagrams Book 3: Western. Bradford-on-Avon: Trackmaps. ISBN 0-9549866-1-X.
• Leitch, Russell (2002). Plymouth's Railways in the 1930s. Peterborough: Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. ISBN 0-901115-91-6.
• Mosley, Brian (17 February 2007). "Keyham Station (GWR)". Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History. Plymouth Data. Archived from the original on 18 May 2008. Retrieved 13 February 2015.

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