Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot is a railway traction maintenance depot situated in Plymouth, Devon, England. The depot is operated by Great Western Railway and is where their fleet of Class 802 InterCity Express Trains and remaining Castle Class trains are overhauled. Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot is situated 1,200 feet southwest of Old Laira Road.

Fort Efford

Fort

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Fort Efford is a former 19th-century Fort, built as a result of the Royal Commission on National Defence of 1859. It was built to defend the landward approaches to the North East of Plymouth. Fort Efford is situated 3,200 feet northeast of Old Laira Road.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Laira and Efford.

Laira

Suburb

Photo: Tony Atkin, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Laira – previously recorded as Lare, Lary poynte, the Leerie, and the Lairy – was originally the name given to that part of the estuary of the River Plym from the Cattewater up to Marsh Mills in Plymouth, Devon, England.

Efford

Suburb

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Efford is an historic manor formerly in the parish of Eggbuckland, Devon, England. Today it has been absorbed by the city of Plymouth to become a large, mostly post-World War II, eastern suburb of the city.

Lipson

Suburb

Lipson is a ward in the city of Plymouth, England. It is an area with mixed terraced housing, some subdivided into bedsits and flats and a public open-space called 'Freedom Fields', a Civil War battle site where the townsfolk of nearby Plymouth resisted substantial Cavalier raiding parties and enabled the town to sustain the royalist siege.

Old Laira Road

Type: Bus stop
Category: transportation
Location: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.38448° or 50° 23′ 4″ north

Longitude

-4.10217° or 4° 6′ 8″ west

Open location code

9C2Q9VMX+Q4

OpenStreetMap ID

node 9571837117

OpenStreetMap feature

highway=bus_stop

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=platform

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