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Title: New Station for Laira - on a half hourly Ivybridge to Tavistock service? Post by: grahame on May 04, 2026, 15:58:49 From Plymouth Live (https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/plan-reopen-lost-plymouth-railway-10948039)
Quote Calls are being made for Plymouth’s disused Laira railway station to be reopened and a shuttle service to run from Plympton into the city centre. MP Luke Pollard is working on a proposal to reopen the Laira platforms nearly a century after they were closed to passengers. He would like the platforms, which are still there but obscured by undergrowth, to form part of a link between a new station at Plympton and the city centre. He envisages a half-hourly service being started in what he calls the city’s biggest rail overhaul in decades. Title: Re: New Station for Laira - on a half hourly Ivybridge to Tavistock service? Post by: Pb_devon on May 04, 2026, 16:52:17 You can tell there’s an election due! Luke is vote hunting!
The parallel road has a bus every 10 to 15 minutes weekdays right into the city centre. Why would anyone dive down a back alley (for that is the approach to the old Laira Halt) to a station? Title: Re: New Station for Laira - on a half hourly Ivybridge to Tavistock service? Post by: TaplowGreen on May 04, 2026, 21:53:40 You can tell there’s an election due! Luke is vote hunting! The parallel road has a bus every 10 to 15 minutes weekdays right into the city centre. Why would anyone dive down a back alley (for that is the approach to the old Laira Halt) to a station? Indeed. There are few areas of Plymouth and its surrounding areas already better served by public transport than this one. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |