The branch line from Plymouth Friary to Plymstock, then out to Turnchapel and Yealmpton, was popular. So far, I have covered Plymstock, Friary and Oreston stations. This time it’s Lucas Terrace Halt. A small halt, but one that served the local people well.
Lucas Terrace Halt wasn’t the biggest of halts, it barely registered on older Ordinance Survey Maps.
The station opened in Oct 1905 by the London and South Western Railway. Like other stations on the line, the Southern Railway diverted trains to Plymouth Friary because bombing damaged the original Plymouth Station during World War II.
Pictures of the Lucas Terrace
The superb and original study of Lucas Terrace Halt show Class 02 No. 200 and its train leaving for Plymstock on the 5th of August 1928. Image b H. C. Casserley
A Class 02 No. 207 heads the Turnchapel train away from Lucas Terrace on the 22nd of May 1935. A Class T9 is being turned on the turntable in the background. Image by H. C. Casserley
These two views of Lucas Terrace Halt, during March of 1968. The top image looks west, toward Friary, and the bottom looks east, towards Cattewater Junction. In the background can be the Lanhydrock Road overbridge, Friary Junction with the main lines to Friary Station, the GWR’s Sutton Harbour Branch (closed in December 1975) and the LSWR bridge over it. Images by Anthony Kingdom
Not much protection from the rain, but the simple shelter was well used. The lower line on the left, was the GWR Sutton Harbour Branch. The line to Plymstock (on the right) would head over Embankment Road. The GWR, operated the line from Laira Green to Plymstock and Yealmpton. Image by L.G.R.P.
A view westwards from Lucas Terrace Halt in the Southern days, showing the branch and main lines to Friary. Image by Anthony Kingdom
Lucas Terrace Today
Very little of the halt is left today, the following images were taken by me in June 2024.
The underpass is still there and is used to get to St Judes. The signpost shows that you can walk a lot of the old line to Pymstock and Plympton.
From the air, you can clearly see the lines from Friary on the Sutton Harbour Branch (on the left) and the LSWR Plymstock Branch (on the right). Very little of the halt remains.
Another aerial shot, showing how little of the halt remains.
You can see more about Lucas Terrace Halt, and the other stations on the line, in the video The Plymouth to Cattewater & Turnchapel Railways.
Again, a huge thank you to Anthony Kingdom for letting me use some of the images from his book,
