from Pomphlett to Modbury were put forward. The initial frenzy was followed by calmer counsel and at length the Yealmpton branch was built and owned by the GWR, branching off at Plymstock. Partial opening Although authorisation was obtained in 1883, progress on the work was slow, but the bridge crossing the Plym, adjacent to the so-called iron road bridge, was ready in 1887; the railway line itself (to Pomphlett) was ready on 25 June 1888, from which date the LSWR operated a goods service "experimentally". The LSWR agreed to upgrade the line for passenger operation; they retained income from working the line to offset against the cost of the upgrade, which was the P&DR's responsibility. The line as far as Pomphlett was opened to passenger trains on 5 September 1892. The station at Pomphlett was "to general surprise" named Plymstock. After considerable wrangling over the South Hams line to Modbury, agreement was reached with the GWR and the LSWR and P&DR abandoned aspirations to enter that area, and the P&DR revived lapsed powers to extend to Turnchapel, but now omitting the Clovelly Bay branch; these powers were authorised on 3 July 1891. It was put forward for opening and inspected by Lt-Col Addison in May 1896, but he refused to authorise opening. There was no interlocking between the operation of the swing bridge near Turnchapel and train signalling, and parts of the route were outside the authorised limits of deviation. Agreement was later reached authorising opening, and the section from Plymstock to Turnchapel opened to traffic on 1 January 1897. The LSWR operated train services on the line, the P&DR remaining simply the owner of the infrastructure; the LSWR retained 50% of receipts. From 15 January 1898 the GWR started operating its own passenger train service from its Millbay station in Plymouth to Yealmpton; this ran by agreement over the LSWR line from Cattewater Junction to Plymstock, which included the bridge over the River Plym. From 1923 The railways of Great Britain were subject to the Railways Act 1922 by which most of them were "grouped", and both the LSWR and the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway passed into the ownership of the new Southern Railway (UK). The Transport Act 1947 imposed further reorganisation, taking the railways into national ownership under British Railways in 1948. The rise of urban bus services led to a steep decline in passenger carryings on the