🌳 OutdoorSeasonal openingEducational
What’s there
- Café on site
- Limited parking
- Dogs welcome
No parking on site at Marsh Mills Station. The Coypool Park and Ride car park opposite is used by railway visitors at weekends, and there is a car park near Plym Bridge platform.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The Plym Valley Railway is a volunteer-run heritage railway on the eastern side of Plymouth, where steam and diesel locomotives, carriages and wagons are preserved and restored. Passenger trains run along a section of the old Great Western branch line through the wooded Plym Valley, from the Marsh Mills site to Plym Bridge, a journey of about a mile and a half. For children who love trains, it is a relaxed day out with the chance to see engines up close, and there is a small shop with toys and model railways. A miniature railway also runs at Marsh Mills on some days. Running days are mainly Sundays from spring until November, with extra days through the year and special themed events, including steam and diesel days and festive trains. Dogs on leads are welcome on the trains.
Runs Sundays from spring to November, plus selected days and special events such as steam and diesel running days and festive trains.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Hairbrush
- Sun cream
- Wet bagFor whatever comes home soaked.
- Boiled sweets for the carEars on hills, boredom on motorways.
- Kitchen roll
- Sudocrem
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