Bristol Open Doors 13th Sept

mow · Post by **mow** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:16 pm

Picked up a leaflet on the Bristol Open Doors Day, which mentions tours of the inner workings of Temple Meads Station - which requires advanced booking, sturdy shoes and a torch. - 0117 934 8466

Clifton Rocks Railway open Sat and Sun.

BristleGWR · Post by **BristleGWR** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:10 pm

The Temple Meads tour is showing as fully booked on this page.

http://www.bristoldoorsopenday.org/venues.htm

BristleGWR · Post by **BristleGWR** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:29 pm

There are also other sites outside of Bristol that are open that weekend as part of 'Heritage Open Days', which may be of interest.

A list for the south west can be found here: http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/dire ... th%20West/

andy hole · Post by **andy hole** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:46 pm

I tried to get on this tour of Temple Meads was booked up over a month in advance. (I tryed on the 8th of Aug and got the fully booked phone message)

stopblock · Post by **stopblock** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:42 pm

I've been lucky enough to have an unguided tour of underground temple meads.There are places down there that probably have hardly seen a soul since they stopped working there. As far as I know it stretchesas far as platform 7 then its blocked off.
There was stories that tunnels did lead to bath road and right out on to the banks of the river avon,however due to the tunnels being what looks like being deliberatly blocked I dont know.

BristleGWR · Post by **BristleGWR** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:04 pm

Looks like the 'Bristol Industrial Archaeological Society' were doing a similar visit a couple of weeks ago and were short of numbers.

http://www.b-i-a-s.org.uk/BIAS_news.html