Student volunteers from the University of Plymouth recently spent a day revamping a disused platform at Bere Alston station.

They carried out painting, installed new planters on the platform as well as weeding and shrub clearance.

The action day was part of a series of projects to improve stations along the Tamar Valley and Looe Valley Lines as part of the Volunteer in Plymouth Rural Stations project.

Rebecca Catterall from Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership, which works with the volunteering department at the university on these projects, said: 'The students started work on Bere Alston last year by re-painting the signal box, now we are heading back to carry on the work by adding some new planters which have been donated by First Great Western Station manager at Plymouth Mark Chorley.'

The Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership works to promote the Tamar Valley Line and the places it serves and to seek improvements to the line.

Volunteering in Plymouth is a student-led society at the university with approximately 600 volunteers involved in community-based projects, ranging from beach cleans to serving meals and chatting at an older people's lunch club and working with children with disabilities.