{"id":722773,"date":"2026-08-01T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722773\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:58:08","slug":"okehampton-interchange-station-officially-opens-to-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722773\/","title":{"rendered":"Okehampton interchange station officially opens to passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new railway station and transport hub has officially opened in Devon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The \u00a318m Okehampton interchange provides an extra stop between the town&#8217;s station and Crediton on the Dartmoor Line. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The aim of the interchange is to make it easier for people to travel to Exeter and beyond, with its close proximity to the A30 and a a 200 space car park, costing people \u00a32 to park all day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A ceremony was held on Friday ahead of the official launch of passenger services on Saturday, where central Devon MP Sir Mel Stride, councillors and rail representatives attended, saying it was a &#8220;proud moment&#8221; for everyone who had worked hard to deliver the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new railway station and transport hub has officially opened in Devon. The \u00a318m Okehampton interchange provides an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-722773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}