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The line now comes to [[Ivybridge railway station]]. The platforms here are staggered with the one on the left nearer Totnes than the one on the right.<ref name=Devon>{{cite book |last=Oakley |first=Mike |year=2007 |title=Devon Railway Stations |location=Wimbourne |publisher=The Dovecote Press |isbn=978-1-904349-55-6 |page=not cited}}</ref> This is a modern station opened in 1994; the original station was closed in 1965 and was on the far side of the curving {{convert|229|yd|m|0}}<ref name=Cooke/> Ivybridge Viaduct where an old [[goods shed]] can be seen on the left. After the {{convert|309|yd|0}} Blatchford Viaduct is the old [[Cornwood railway station]] where [[George Hennet]]'s station house is on the right.
{{convert|275|yd|0}} Slade Viaduct brings rises to the top of Hemerdon Bank, the steepest climb for trains heading towards Newton Abbot. A fast run down the bank to the site of [[Plympton railway station]], and then Tavistock Junction. The large goods yard here includes a maintenance shed for on-track equipment and a connection to the china clay drier at [[Marsh Mills railway station|Marsh Mills]]. This is on the former [[South Devon and Tavistock Railway]] although the junction originally faced Plymouth.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Anthony |first1=G.H. |last2=Jenkins |first2=S.C. |year=1997 |title=The Launceston Branch |location=Headington |publisher=Oakwood Press |isbn=
The line swings left under the Marsh Mills Viaduct of the [[A38 road]] and then runs alongside the tidal estuary of the [[River Plym]] on the left, with the grounds of [[Saltram House]] at [[Plymstock]] on the far bank. Underneath the Embankment Road bridge which carries the A38 over the line again and [[Laira TMD]] on the left. Laira maintains [[First Great Western]]'s [[British Rail Class 43 (HST)|High Speed Trains]] in Devon. A triangle of lines takes a freight route down to the [[Plymouth]] waterfront ''via'' the closed [[Plymouth Friary railway station]], which was the terminus for trains on the competing route from [[London Waterloo station]].
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