Cann Quarry and The Marsh Mills Railway
A feeder line to the Plymouth & Dartmoor line was opened on 1 November 1829 or 1 January 1830 (authorities differ) from a junction with the Plymouth & Dartmoor Tramway at Crabtree (on the Plym estuary between Laira and Plympton) to a location on the Cann Quarry Canal near the site of the later Plym Bridge Platform. The branch was later extended along the towpath to the quarry itself.
Between 1830 and 1833, but probably in 1832, the Marsh Mills Railway was built as a branch to the Cann Quarry line, joining it just after the Plym river bridge and extending a short distance to a works at Marsh Mills,
The Plympton Tramway was then proposed as an extension of the Marsh Mills line and it opened in early 1834, alongside the new alignment of the Plymouth Turnpike to a facing junction with the Cann Quarry line, and the Marsh Mills line was dismantled.
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