Dockyard railway station

Dockyard
265px A train to Gunnislake
Location
Place	Devonport
Local authority	Plymouth
Coordinates
Grid reference	SX453558
Operations
Station code	DOC
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03	4,070
2004/05	5,088
2005/06	4,895
2006/07	5,335
2007/08	4,924
2008/09	5,280
2009/10	5,524
2010/11	5,406
2011/12	7,716
2012/13	7,400
2013/14	6,970
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Opened	1905
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dockyard from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Dockyard railway station is a Great Western Railway suburban station on the Cornish Main Line in Devonport, Plymouth, England. As the name implies it serves Devonport Dockyard. It is also served by trains on the Tamar Valley Line 1.75 miles (3 km) west of Plymouth.

File:Dockyard Halt, Plymouth in 1970.jpg

Up platform in 1970.

History

This station was opened by the Great Western Railway on 1 June 1905, one of many halts built to combat the competition from electric trams.

The Great Western Railway was nationalised into British Railways from 1 January 1948 which was in turn privatised in the 1990s.

Services

Dockyard is served by Tamar Valley Line services from Plymouth to Gunnislake, and also by a few trains on the Cornish Main Line to and from Penzance, some of which continue eastwards beyond Plymouth towards Exeter St Davids.

Trains only stop on request – 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.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Devonport		Great Western Railway Cornish Main Line		Keyham
		Great Western Railway Tamar Valley Line

Community railway

The railway from Plymouth to Gunnislake is designated as a community railway and is supported by marketing provided by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership. The line is promoted under the "Tamar Valley Line" name. It is also part of the Dartmoor Sunday Rover network of integrated bus and rail routes.