| New Station for Laira - on a half hourly Ivybridge to Tavistock service? Posted by grahame at 15:58, 4th May 2026 |     |
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 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.
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.
| Re: New Station for Laira - on a half hourly Ivybridge to Tavistock service? Posted by Pb_devon at 16:52, 4th May 2026 | |
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?
