Talk:Okehampton railway station

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[edit] Track plan

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)

[edit] Station Code

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)

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)

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)

[edit] Future

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)