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« Reply #330 on: January 13, 2023, 04:37:12 pm »
Typo - it's  accessible.
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« Reply #331 on: January 13, 2023, 04:53:19 pm »
Quote from: ChrisB on January 13, 2023, 04:37:12 pm
Typo - it's  accessible.

I've found the misssing s and corrected the original - if you click on the link it should be right now (and for all other stations too)
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« Reply #332 on: January 13, 2023, 06:37:53 pm »
Direct trains to Plymouth    Not yet.
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« Reply #333 on: January 18, 2023, 11:03:14 pm »
Announced today, the Levelling Up Fund bid for West Devon Transport Hub AKA▸ (also known as) Okehampton Parkway has been successful.  £13,455,000.
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« Reply #334 on: January 19, 2023, 03:39:53 pm »
Thinking that an Okehampton Parkway station should be at Sourton, even if it added a '1' to left hand end of the costings. It'd be a bit mean to suggest meeting half the costs by repurposing the money allocated for the first ever RoRo ferry to, er, Fairisle.

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« Reply #335 on: January 19, 2023, 05:18:42 pm »
The parkway station is in among new industrial park and new housing nearby.
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« Reply #336 on: January 19, 2023, 11:29:10 pm »
Hopefully they'll build the platforms long enough for some nice 80x's that can run directly to London, or perhaps the good folks at GCHQ Bude might like to chip in a few quid to enable their staff to travel direct via CrossCountry to Cheltenham ;-) 
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« Reply #337 on: January 20, 2023, 08:22:48 pm »
Quote from: Noggin on January 19, 2023, 11:29:10 pm
Hopefully they'll build the platforms long enough for some nice 80x's that can run directly to London, or perhaps the good folks at GCHQ Bude might like to chip in a few quid to enable their staff to travel direct via CrossCountry to Cheltenham ;-) 

I thought they used the Orient Express.
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« Reply #338 on: September 15, 2023, 07:13:52 am »
Congratulations to GWR▸ (Great Western Railway) and the Okehampton team on winning "Station of the Year - Small" at last night's National Rail Awards
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« Reply #339 on: November 21, 2023, 05:34:08 pm »
The Mayor of Okehampton cut a cake in a small ceremony at the town's station yesterday to celebrate the second anniversary of the station and Dartmoor Line fully reopening.

More info here  https://dartmoorline.com/2023/11/celebrations-in-okehampton-as-more-than-550000-journeys-made-in-first-two-years-of-dartmoor-line-reopening/

and here https://www.radioexe.co.uk/news-and-features/local-news/happy-birthday-okehampton-line/
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« Reply #340 on: November 22, 2023, 12:57:55 pm »
There's more information about the new station to be built at the east end of Okehampton, 2 mins drive from the A30, here https://dartmoorline.com/west-devon-transport-hub/ plus an Autumn update on the project here https://dartmoorline.com/2023/11/autumn-update-west-devon-transport-hub/

The final name for the station is still under discussion, but it won't be "West Devon Transport Hub" which is the project name.
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« Reply #341 on: November 23, 2023, 12:20:49 pm »
This is another example of how passenger estimates for new rail services prove to be a lot lower than what actually happens, while the reverse is more often the case for cheaper alternatives. The integrated bus service shows the sort of joined-up thinking we need to see more of. If anyone at Devon County Council is watching, please take this as a plug for a similar initiative between Tiverton and its eponymous Parkway. The town is growing fast, and the current provision means travelling to the station by car is the only sensible option. I am sure other towns would be able to make similar pleas with equal justification.
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