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Location notes
A small two platform station on the Great Western Main Line located in the city of Exeter.
Railway type and traffic
First Great Western HST's, and units from Classes 143, 150, 153 and, occasionally, 158. Also CrossCountry Voyagers with a few HSTs a day thrown into the mix.
Freight is limited to occasional china clay and engineers workings.
Freight is limited to occasional china clay and engineers workings.
Link to Real Time Trains
RTT Link Exeter St Thomas
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Environment
An unstaffed two platform station close to Exeter city centre, tends to get busy when a train is due, but pretty quiet otherwise, safe enough, but prone to attracting homeless people and youths later in the day. Weather protection consists of open fronted shelters.
Road directions
Located just off the bustling Cowick Street in Exeter's St Thomas area, which is signposted around Exeter.
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Exeter St Thomas map co-ordinates
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Exeter St Thomas map co-ordinates
Parking
Nothing dedicated to the station, there is a shopping centre near the station that may provide parking, albeit at a cost!
Public transport
Exeter has a great park and ride system, which is signposted from the major roads into the city, it runs to the city centre from where there are plenty of buses to St Thomas. Meanwhile the station has an hourly service to and from Exeter St Davids/Exmouth and Paignton which increases to half hourly at peak times.
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Amenities
Nothing on the station itself, but plenty of pubs and takeaways on the adjacent Cowick Street, as well as a Pizza Hut just in front of the station.
Accommodation
Exeter has plenty of good quality accommodation for most budgets.
Sun Compass
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Exeter St Thomas
Streetmap links
Exeter St Thomas general view map
Exeter St Thomas close up map
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Exeter St Thomas
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Exeter St Thomas
Googly map
Exeter St Thomas general view map
Exeter St Thomas close up map
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Exeter St Thomas
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Photographic notes
The best angle is looking north at down trains, for which the light is best in the early to mid afternoon, looking south from the down platform is a good view but you're likely to have areas of shadow from all positions if the sun is out, or there's a very tight shot looking south from the up platform. Video will be best towards the platform ends, you'll probably get noise from passengers otherwise.
General views - All photographs © Tim Squires unless otherwise stated
Fig 1 - Looking north
Fig 2 - Looking north west
Fig 3 - Looking south
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The information on these pages is supplied for the benefit of railway enthusiasts who carry out a harmless hobby, and through the medium of photography and video, actually promote the railway industry. Railway enthusiasts can also act as eyes and ears against railway vandalism, and as such should surely be encouraged to do so by the supply of adequate information such as is found on this website.
This site has been created to assist railway photographers in their travels around the country. It is based on the personal knowledge and experience. No liability can be held against the web site or its contributions for incorrect information. Trainspots will endeavour to check all information and corrections will be accepted and posted accordingly.
Advice as to the locations general environment is given as a guide on each page. This information is a GUIDE only. ALWAYS be careful with your equipment, Trainspots can not be held responsible for your personal security. Avoid leaving your property on display for all to see, be aware of your surroundings at all times. There are, sadly, people who will not think twice about trying to steal your equipment.
Trainspots DOES NOT condone trespass and none of the information on this site should be taken as a right to trespass on either railway or private land. To the best of our knowledge all locations are publicly accessible areas, where they are not contact information will be given to the appropriate authority for permission to be obtained.
The content of this site is created and intended for all age ranges but the content of sites linked from this site are not subject to the same intentions. Trainspots will attempt to check links for validity but as time passes and the site grows this will not always be possible. Broken, or indeed updates to, links should be submitted to the editor for inclusion in the updates. All links external to the Trainspots site are opened in a new browser window. Trainspots has been running now for over 10 years and there are imitation sites and guides to railfotspots. But we are a free site and we continue on the path we started out on over a decade ago to provide a useful guide to UK Railway Photographic Locations.
