Exeter St David's - station, facilities, improvements, events and incidents - merged posts

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If I remember rightly, the main problem a few years ago was at Stafford(s?) bridge and was caused by the river underscoring the supports/bank threatening collapse of the bridge itself. Remedial work was done to correct this and prevent any further errosion.

[eightf48544]

Maybe that as it's been so dry that Exemoor is absorbing a lot of the rain and has not yet started releasing into the Exe. If this rain continues however, Exemoor will be saturated and the extra water will run straight into the river. Then there might be problems because rail lines are not much higher than the river bank.

[The SprinterMeister]

If I remember rightly, the main problem a few years ago was at Stafford(s?) bridge and was caused by the river underscoring the supports/bank threatening collapse of the bridge itself. Remedial work was done to correct this and prevent any further errosion.

There are two massive drainage ducts through the main line embankment just beyond the point ends at Cowley Bridge Jn, more or less at the point where the embankment failed during the 2001 flooding. Any surface water that backs up against the embankment from the fields on the down side therefore runs straight through the ducts and into the river Exe which removes the tendency for the embankment to be undermined.

[Chris from Nailsea]

From the BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page):

A driver of a double-decker bus which crashed into a steel canopy at a Devon railway station has been ordered to pay nearly ^200.

Sean Ankers, 23, from Gordon Road, Topsham, smashed into the canopy at Exeter St David's station and glass from its windows shattered.

Exeter Magistrates' Court heard it was his first week on a double-decker bus and his first day on the route.

No-one was injured during the crash in October, the court heard.

Defence lawyer Beth Heaton said Ankers had to negotiate a badly parked taxi at the busy station and struck the canopy which juts out. "He simply made a mistake. He has had re-training and feels more confident but is not driving double-deckers for a while."

Prosecutor Mark Haddow said the incident was "a momentary lapse" in judgement as Ankers mistakenly pulled into a bus stop for single-deckers rather than the one for double-deckers."

Ankers admitted careless driving and was fined ^80 and ^105 costs and had three points added to his driving licence.

[Pb_devon]

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Man-recovering-hit-head-train-Exeter/story-29253578-detail/story.html

A 22-year-old man is recovering in hospital after being struck on the head by a train at Exeter St Davids railway station yesterday. [hence May 9th]

Trains through Devon, Plymouth and Cornwall were delayed as the the station, and a nearby road, were closed.

The incident happened on platform five at lunchtime and, as part of the emergency services response, an air ambulance landed beside the train station.

British Transport Police say the 22 year old is conscious and speaking, and the bloody head injuries he suffered were "not life threatening."

Shocked passengers on the platform described seeing the man lying in a pool of blood after the incident involving a low speed train.

[JayMac]

What's not reported is that the man apparently jumped from one of the overbridges, bounced off the train roof and landed on the platform.

[grahame]

From Devon live

Exeter St David’s is Devon's most crime-hit train station
Statistics show the British Transport Police were called to a total of 88 crimes at the Exeter station last year

On or near Exeter St David'S (Station) // 88
On or near Plymouth (Station) // 43
On or near Newton Abbot (Station) // 22
On or near Exeter Central (Station) // 16
On or near Totnes (Station) // 13
On or near Paignton (Station) // 7
On or near Tiverton Parkway (Station) // 7
On or near Torquay (Station) // 5
On or near Exmouth (Station) // 5
On or near Starcross (Station) // 4
On or near Digby And Sowton (Station) // 4
On or near Crediton (Station) // 4
On or near Axminster (Station) // 4
On or near Topsham (Station) // 3
On or near Dawlish Warren (Station) // 3
On or near Barnstaple (Station) // 3
On or near Torre (Station) // 3
On or near Exton (Station) // 3
On or near Polsloe Bridge (Station) // 2
On or near Dawlish (Station) // 2
On or near Newcourt (Station) // 2
On or near Pinhoe (Station) // 2
On or near St Budeaux Victoria Road (Station) // 1
On or near Ivybridge (Station) // 1
On or near Whimple (Station) // 1
On or near St James Park (Exeter) (Station) // 1
On or near Lympstone Commando (Station) // 1
On or near Eggesford (Station) // 1
On or near St Thomas (Exeter) (Station) // 1
On or near Teignmouth (Station) // 1
On or near Honiton (Station) // 1
On or near Bere Ferrers (Station) // 1
On or near Morchard Road (Station) // 0
On or near Cranbrook (Station) // 0
On or near Bere Alston (Station) // 0
On or near Feniton (Station) // 0
On or near Lympstone Village (Station) // 0

[Eliza]

I was about to book tickets to and from this station, when I checked station facilities on the National Rail website.  It says:

The lifts are out of order between Platform 1/Station entrance and Platform 5 and the rest of the station until further notice at Exeter St Davids station.

See (Exeter St Davids - next trains)/details.html" target="_blank">https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/EXD/details.html.  Is this true?  My husband is a wheelchair user.

[PhilWakely]

To the best of my knowledge, they are working.

[Eliza]

That's a relief.  I've seen before that warnings have not been removed, once the work in question has been done.