{"id":12814,"date":"2025-10-07T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/?p=12814"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:57:38","slug":"128-cattewater-and-turnchapel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teignrail.co.uk\/scouting\/128-cattewater-and-turnchapel\/","title":{"rendered":"128 Cattewater and Turnchapel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A week after following the Callington Branch, the scout returned to Plymouth, intending to finish the route refresher of Okehampton to Friary and revisit the two short branches from the former Southern terminus.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, he rode to Devonport to get better photos of Valletort Road Bridge and the mouth of Devonport Park Tunnel. On the way back, he scrambled down from Fitzroy Road to view the partly blocked arch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then he returned to North Road and carried on to Mutley, where he thought he may find a “greasy spoon” for some breakfast. Finding none, he rode on to Laira and tried to find a vantage point overlooking Lipson Junction. The lineside was too overgrown and so he went beneath the main line inside the Laira triangle and then out again beneath the old South Western loop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the entrance to the top floor of Napier Terrace Car Park, a concrete monstrosity built on legs in the cutting at the mouth of Mutley Tunnel. The western portal is beneath these bicycle lockers. +<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The scout had thought that he could follow the loop but had to resort to going along Lipson Vale and over the hill to Lanhydrock Road, which joins Embankment Road between Mount Gould and Friary junctions. Then he followed the line to Tothill Road Viaduct and got the photographs he needed to finish his journey along the former main line from Okehampton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He took a few shots of the North Quay Branch before heading towards Cattedown. Opposite the Victoria Wharves entrance he found the New East End Caf\u00e9 and Take Away in Coxside and, it being nearly midday, decided to quell his rumbling tummy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n