Yeovil Pen Mill railway station

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Yeovil Pen Mill

Location

Place

Yeovil

Local authority

South Somerset

Operations

Station code

YVP

Managed by

First Great Western

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

98,536

2005/06 *

99,041

History

Key dates

Opened 2 February 1854

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Yeovil Pen Mill from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Yeovil Pen Mill railway station is one of two stations serving the town of Yeovil in the English county of Somerset. The station is situated just under a mile to the east of the town centre.

The station is located 96 km (59½ miles) south of Bristol Temple Meads on the Bristol to Weymouth line. The station is served and managed by the First Great Western train operating company.

The town is also served by Yeovil Junction railway station, on the London Waterloo to Exeter line served by South West Trains. Whilst there is a rail connection between the two lines, there are no regular passenger trains between the two stations. They are just under two miles apart by road.

[edit] Services

There is generally a two-hourly service, every day, towards Bristol Temple Meads northbound and Weymouth southbound.

Services are operated by Class 158s, Class 150s or less frequently Class 153 diesel multiple units. During the summer, some weekend trains are operated by Class 31s or Class 67s with Mk. 2 coaching stock. In 2007 EWS operated the service for First Great Western using Class 67s, but a licence/ contract issue ended the service early, meaning road transport had to be used for the last few weeks on summer.