The Cattewater Branch
Plymouth Friary
Plymouth Friary was opened on 1st July 1891 as the LSWR's (and later Southern Railway) terminus from Waterloo and Exeter via Okehampton, as well as the branch line to Plymstock and Turnchapel. The GWR also subsequently used the terminus from 1941 to 1947 for Yealmpton branch services. Ideally located close to Plymouth's city centre (more so than the joint GWR / SR North Road Station), Friary closed to passengers on 15th September 1958, with goods traffic continuing at the station until May 1963. The station building was demolished in 1976, just 18 months prior to these images, with the track layout remaining largely unaltered until the late 1980s when the station site was converted for retail use, although Friary yard is still retained today for railway use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRHIWIMhuX8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRHIWIMhuX8
Cattewater Junction
Network Rail Test Trains in Plymouth: Part II. In what could well be the final time a Class 31 traverses the freight only Cattewater Branch, NR Class 31/4 31465 propels DBSO 9701 down the Cattewater Branch at Cattewater Junction on 10th May 2012. This is where the former Cattewater freight line diverged from the former GWR Yealmpton and SR Turnchapel branches, and in the second clip, 31465 crosses the point where the 4'6" Lee Moor Tramway once crossed the Cattewater branch. All taken from a legal viewpoint (lens through the fence) which since this was filmed has now been made off limits by further fencing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvVMLh9_oA