From
WikipediaThe Bristol and Exeter Railway opened on 1 May 1844 but it ran south of Tiverton, so a station known as "Tiverton Road" was opened to serve the town. This station was renamed "Tiverton Junction" on 12 June 1848 when the Tiverton branch line was opened to a station in the town itself.
By the 1980s the branch to Tiverton had closed and Tiverton Junction station only saw a couple of trains in each direction each day so a decision was taken to relocate the station a short distance to the east, close to the motorway junction where traffic from Barnstaple and Ilfracombe from the A361 joined. Tiverton Junction closed on 11 May 1986 and the new station was opened the following day by David Mitchell MP▸ , the Minister of Transport at the time. It was built by British Rail on the site of the former Sampford Peverell railway station that had closed on 5 October 1964.
An additional car park for the station was opened in late 2007 as the original car park was too small when FGW▸ increased the services to the station.
Other Parkway Station openings in
GWR▸ area:
1 May 1972 - Station opened at Bristol Parkway
4 November 1983 - renamed to Bodmin Parkway
3 December 1984 - renamed to Port Talbot Parkway (its fifth name!)
29 July 1985 - renamed to Didcot Parkway
?? April 2002 - opened Portway Park and Ride - trains not yet calling
25 October 2015 - Opened, Oxford Parkway
23 February 2020 - Opened, Worcestershire Parkway
Which other stations would you christen as "ParkWay" or "Park and Ride"? Where woud you open new stations under those monicas? Should we now be calling them "Gateway" stations to indicate wider use (buses, trams, ferries)?
