Bere Alston railway station
Bere Alston 
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Looking west towards the junction
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| Location | |
| Place | Bere Alston |
| Local authority | West Devon |
| Coordinates | 50°29′11″N 4°11′59″W / 50.4863°N 4.19982°WCoordinates: 50°29′11″N 4°11′59″W / 50.4863°N 4.19982°W |
| Grid reference | SX440674 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BAS |
| Managed by | Great Western Railway |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 44,792 |
| 2012/13 |
 42,128 |
| 2013/14 |
38,762 |
| 2014/15 |
37,082 |
| 2015/16 |
39,570 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Bere Alston from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Bere Alston railway station is an unstaffed halt situated near the village of Bere Alston in Devon, England, 10 1⁄4 miles (16.5 km) north of Plymouth on the branch to Gunnislake.
The survival of the route is almost entirely because Bere Alston, Bere Ferrers, and are situated in an area which for geographical reasons has relatively poor road connections.
Beer Alston station was opened for passenger traffic on 2 June 1890 by the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway as an intermediate station on that company's line from Lydford to Devonport, which – being in effect an extension of the London and South Western Railway's main line from London Waterloo station to Lydford, enabling the LSWR to reach Plymouth independently of the Great Western Railway – was immediately leased to the LSWR. Bere Alston station was 220 miles and 15 chains (354.35 km) from Waterloo.
The station was originally called Beer Alston after the local Beer family who owned several nearby villages. However, in 1897, the railway authorities of the time decided that this name promoted an unrefined image of the village due to the association with beer, and therefore changed the name to "Bere Alston" in 1898.
On 2 March 1908 it became a junction, with the opening of a branch line to Callington Road. The PDSWJR became part of the Southern Railway in 1923 and British Railways on 1 January 1948.
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