| Re: Plymouth Metro Posted by Mark A at 11:01, 11th June 2026 |     |
Yup, posturing should be reserved for Tavistock (and regarding Tavistock shouldn't be posturing, there should be progress).
Mark
| Re: Plymouth Metro Posted by IndustryInsider at 10:47, 11th June 2026 | |
To an extent this is a local MP posturing and he would be wise not to raise expectations.
Yes, to a very large extent I would suggest.
| Re: Plymouth Metro Posted by TaplowGreen at 07:00, 11th June 2026 | |
Looking from "afar" - it strikes me that Tavistock could really do with a metro rail re-opening and as it's so close to Plymouth and part of the same economic area ... but once you get to St Budeaux, the line is paralleled by a good road all the way to North Road, from where the road usefully branches away to serve the city centre. There are, similarly, good bus service from much closer to the centre out past Laira to Marsh Mills. That does not necessarily rule it out, but there are challenges in providing something that will overlap for so much of the way with other provision already made.
Absolutely right.
Areas like Plympton, Plymstock and Laira have excellent bus services into and out of the City Centre.
Tavistock does stand out however as being "out on a limb"
To an extent this is a local MP posturing and he would be wise not to raise expectations.
| Re: Plymouth Metro Posted by grahame at 06:05, 11th June 2026 | |
Looking from "afar" - it strikes me that Tavistock could really do with a metro rail re-opening and as it's so close to Plymouth and part of the same economic area ... but once you get to St Budeaux, the line is paralleled by a good road all the way to North Road, from where the road usefully branches away to serve the city centre. There are, similarly, good bus service from much closer to the centre out past Laira to Marsh Mills. That does not necessarily rule it out, but there are challenges in providing something that will overlap for so much of the way with other provision already made.
| Re: Plymouth Metro Posted by trainbuff at 23:03, 10th June 2026 | |
My concern would be the availabilty of paths without degrading other services to make a CLOCKFACE service feasible, a metro service would need this as an essential. I'd also be concerned if I lived in Calstock or Gunnislake about reduced service to those destinations. A passing loop somewhere on the route would seemingly be necessary too.
As would a crossover at Ivybridge| Re: Plymouth Metro Posted by RailCornwall at 21:26, 10th June 2026 | |
My concern would be the availabilty of paths without degrading other services to make a CLOCKFACE service feasible, a metro service would need this as an essential. I'd also be concerned if I lived in Calstock or Gunnislake about reduced service to those destinations. A passing loop somewhere on the route would seemingly be necessary too.
| Plymouth Metro Posted by Noggin at 11:20, 8th June 2026 | |
Apologies if covered elsewhere.
Plymouth MP Luke Pollard touting a "Plymouth Metro" starting with half-hourly services between Ivybridge and Bere Alston, new stations at Plympton and Laira, followed ultimately by Tavistock reopening.
https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/london-overground-style-plymouth-metro-10999026
Not my neck of the woods, but I suspect that it needs a bit more than just rolling stock, at the very least a turnback siding at Ivybridge.
That said, it's a "playbook" that worked fairly well in Bristol - upping the Gloucester service to half-hourly made the rail service from places like Yate much more usable, bolstering the business case for new stations like Charfield and reopening the Portishead line.
