Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Building
- Description: Train maintenance facility in South West England
- Also known as: “Laira Diesel Depot” and “Laira Traction Maintenance Depot”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lipson Co-operative Academy and Efford Library.
Lipson Co-operative Academy
School
Lipson Co-operative Academy is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in the Lipson area of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. Lipson Co-operative Academy is situated 1,700 feet west of Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot.
Efford Library
Library
Photo: Clib31, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Efford Library is situated 2,700 feet northwest of Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot.
Saltram House
Historic building
Photo: Chilli Head, CC BY 2.0.
Saltram House is a grade I listed George II era house in Plympton, Devon, England. It was deemed by the architectural critic Nikolaus Pevsner to be "the most impressive country house in Devon". Saltram House is situated 1 mile east of Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot.
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.
Laira Traction and Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot
Latitude
50.38148° or 50° 22′ 53″ northLongitude
-4.10439° or 4° 6′ 16″ westOpen location code
9C2Q9VJW+H6OpenStreetMap ID
way 41081920OpenStreetMap feature
building=depotWikidata ID
Q6474043
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