Plymouth

CRS Code	PLY
Collected date	26/05/05

Plymouth station is served by a large number of train operating companies and has a correspondingly large number of platforms: six for passengers and three unnumbered platforms.

The entrance to the modern concourse area:

Inside the concourse, looking towards the entrance:

A large number of pot plants brighten the ticket office:

Walking from the concourse into the platform area, the first platforms you encounter are unnumbered and not used for passenger trains. A bay at the west end of the station:

Next to that western bay is another bay platform which is numbered platform 3 and used by trains on the branch to Gunnislake. Directly opposite are two more bay platforms, the one on the right raised and formerly used for the Royal Mail's Travelling Post Office trains:

The bays seen from along the platform. The tower block is Inter City House, a large office block built into the station accommodating various railway companies:

Back outside the station, the access area once used for loading and unloading mail from the mail trains can be seen:

Platform 4, looking east:

Looking west along platform 4:

Looking east along platform 6, with platform 5 on the right:

The building on platform 7:

The canopy and signage on the platform 7 building are still in the green-and-cream colours of the first operator of the Great Western franchise after privatisation:

Platform 8, looking east:

At the western end of the station are these towers which protrude from the platform canopies, the tops of the lift shafts between the platforms and the subway that links them:

This "signal box" is at the western end of the station on the concourse side:

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