Bristol Parkway Railway Station

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The station building with the platforms
The platforms with a train from CrossCountry

Bristol Parkway is a train station on the northern outskirts of Bristol , United Kingdom . It is located near the suburb of Stoke Gifford in the district of South Gloucestershire and is served by trains operated by First Great Western and CrossCountry . In the 2004/05 operating year, 1.465 million passengers used this station.

Five kilometers south, near the city center, is the city's second main train station, Temple Meads .

history

The station was built on the South Wales Main Line in the early 1970s . There were numerous reasons for a new station at Stoke Gifford: the trains between London and South Wales no longer had to take the time-consuming detour via Bath and Bristol Temple Meads from Swindon , a large car park could be built and the population of the northern suburbs increased rapidly to (especially since the satellite town of Bradley Stoke was built ).

The station was opened on May 1, 1972. The station building was architecturally inconspicuous, a single low-rise building on the north side of the tracks with a footbridge to the two platforms. On July 1, 2001, a new two-storey building was opened, no longer at the western end of the complex, but a little more towards the center. The pedestrian bridge was equipped for the disabled with the installation of elevators. The renovation cost Network Rail over £ 4 million. In January 2007 the construction of a third platform began, which was put into operation in May 2007. In 2008/09 the capacity of the station is to be increased again with the construction of a fourth platform.

Web links

Commons : Bristol Parkway  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Previous station National Rail Next train station
Swindon   First Great Western
intercity trains
South Wales Main Line
  Newport
Filton Abbey Wood   First Great Western
Taunton – Cheltenham
  Yate
Bristol Temple Meads   Virgin Trains
Cross-Country Route
  Gloucester or
Cheltenham Spa

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 50.8 "  N , 2 ° 32 ′ 38.8"  W.