The Bristol Railway Archive

Very pleased to hear that they're finally looking at re-instating Henbury and North Filton stations as part of a longer term 'loop' service.

North Filton is ideally situated for Royces, British Aerospace, the Royal Mail depot and Filton College which is just across the road. And just to help things ...

What a surprise! The bridge is weak so we'll just reduce half of the running tracks to make things more congested, and - as you pointed out - rather more dangerous!

And now to put things back to how they were it'll cost them probably 10 times what it would have done back then to just strenghten the ...

They may take that option, although that brings us back to the age old problem of Filton Bank and the fact that whatever happens past Abbey Wood, there's still only the main up and down lines.

It made me laugh on the news report last nite when the platform was opened, and it was stated that First ...

Was thinking about that after I left. Can only assume that seeing as the new Platform 4 is now closest to the station buildings, that the existing ones will be numbered 3 and 2, and the next one to be built will be platform 1.

Looks like they'll be doing what they did at Temple Meads years back and ...

Exactly, was even hoping that if we got our 4 lines back we may see the return of Ashley Down and Horfield Stations! Like I said - ever hopeful!

Good news on the Parkway front tho - just started a new topic on that.

Yep, I know there's been news for a while that a new platform was being built at Parkway, so hearing that it was to open this month I went down earlier to take a look at things and grab a few pics.

At present the new platform (backing onto what is currently platform 1 - making it an island now) is ...

Have to admit to being a tad disappointed to find out that all they've done is replace Narroways Junction - tho always good to have good maintenance taking place.

Took a trip on the Severn Beach line the other week - just for summat to do :wink: - and saw all the new track and machinery laid out ...