New Station for Laira - on a half hourly Ivybridge to Tavistock service?

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[grahame]

From Plymouth Live

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^▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post (a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London), depending on context) 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.

[Pb_devon]

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?

[TaplowGreen]

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.