Talk:Okehampton railway station

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Track plan[edit]

is there a track layout plan for okehampton station circa 1947-60 available ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.102.24.103 (talk • contribs) 20:40, 7 February 2007

I should think that there must be one in RA Cooke's Track layout diagrams... series of books. Otherwise try the Railway Studies Collection at Newton Abbot Library. if you can't get there in person, they are good at answering queries sent to them. Geof Sheppard 14:01, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Station Code[edit]

Listed on the article page as "OKE", with a link to its facilities page on the national rail website. The latter page does not exist, the code appears to be either wrong or unrecognised. A search for a journey from okehampton on National Rail website yields results for okehampton under "XCG" for some reason (all buses, run by First Great Western, to Exeter). Can anyone explain? 82.10.108.49 (talk) 23:59, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OKE is the correct code - but there are no winter train services for it the page to show! Geof Sheppard (talk) 08:21, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There are several stations with no services which have pages / active 'live departure boards' that are blank (e.g. all those on the Watford West branch, which has been physically impassible to rail traffic since 1996!). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.10.108.49 (talk) 21:00, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeoford link[edit]

The Line is complete between Okehampton and Exeter, I will be travelling/have travelled on it on Sunday, 20 June 2010. First Great Western run a train on the complete route. Dartmoor Railway run the bit between Yeoford and Okehampton, their website isn't updated very often. Could somebody double check this and update article as necessary. hrf (talk) 23:59, 14 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Future[edit]

I added the text that using the okehampton route to get to cornwall (in the event of the dawlish section being overwhelmed by the sea) requires "at least one reversal". I know that more likely it requires 2 (Exeter St Davids and Plymouth) since the mainline services come from Paddington, however if they come from Waterloo then they run straight through at Exeter St D, ergo 1 reversal. 82.10.108.49 (talk) 13:37, 3 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal - Dartmoor Sunday Rover[edit]

@Silas Mayes: I propose to merge Dartmoor Sunday Rover into Okehampton railway station. The material in Dartmoor Sunday Rover is clearly not substantial enough for an article in its own right. NHSavage (talk) 08:34, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

But the Dartmoor Sunday Rover (despite the claim on its Wikipedia pager) is not just the train service to Okehampton, as indeed the lead of the Okehampton railway station article explains. It was initiated as a bus network and also includes the train service on the Tamar Valley line. I would suggest that it is not notable and that its page could be deleted. Geof Sheppard (talk) 12:39, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I understand what are saying. There seem to be two different things that are known as the Dartmoor Sunday Rover. One is the ticket (that no longer seems available, only the Devon Ranger ticket as far as I can see on the GWR wesbsite) and the Sunday Trains to Okehampton.^[1]^[2] If we merge, then that basically leaves it as a redirect to this page, which I feel is useful but happy to hear other views.--NHSavage (talk) 13:29, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

I'm wondering what you would take from the Dartmoor Sunday Rover page to merge into Okehampton railway station? It currently says

Dartmoor Sunday Rover, officially known as Summer Trains to Exeter from Okehampton, though most refer to it as the Sunday Rover, is a rail service in Devon, England. It is run by Great Western Railway, and Devon County Council supports it financially.

And Okehampton railway station says this:

A summer Sunday service from Exeter to Okehampton operates as part of the Dartmoor Sunday Rover network.

So, this statement now appears to be incorrect. That leaves us with something like:

A summer Sunday service from Exeter to Okehampton operates. It used to be part of the Dartmoor Sunday Rover , a bus and train network which was supported financially by Devon County Council.

Geof Sheppard (talk) 07:58, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I see your point. I have withdrawn my merger proposal. Feel free to deal with the deletion of Dartmoor Sunday Rover if you see fit.NHSavage (talk) 17:30, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Okehampton's new station[edit]

West Devon Hub is the project name. The station will be called Okehampton Parkway or Okehampton East Parkway as with 200 car park spaces it will follow GWR practice.REVUpminster (talk) 16:00, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "Dartmoor Railway Supporters' Association - GWR Sunday service to Okehampton".

[2] "GWR, Dartmoor Rover service marks launch of OkeRail".

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