This is the original forum of the Bristol Railway Archive that existed between 2003 and 2013. I finally rescued it after it seemed unrecoverable after a large crash. I have made it available for viewing. It is locked, all posts to the new version please!
Use this forum to talk about the railways in and around Bristol, or for any off-topic stuff you want to share. Also request photos and information that you are missing.
The air raid shelter and tunnels under Temple Meads will be open again during Bristol Doors Open Day on Saturday Sept 10th, 10am-4pm. Wear stout shoes and bring a torch!
I've had a wander through the tunnels under the station with 2 others we got as far as platform 7 area where it came to and end but it did turn right as if heading under platform 6&8. We found some old shelves down there but nothing else. All this was before they got paranoid about security. Also found out how to stop the clock
I seem to remember that when I travelled from Bath in the 60's to Bristol TM incidently just using a platform ticket so always used a dmu with no corridor, we used to exit and get back on BTM after bunking SPM and Barrow Roadl via a doorway under the bridge at the west end of the station.
Rog
There were a couple of exits from BTM that I just remember using in the 50s and early 60s that were taken out of use.
There is the passageway to an exit under the bridge in Cattle Market Road (presumably the one Wheeltapper is talking about), and there was also a flight of steps that led directly up from the subway to the forecourt (ie as you began to come up out the subway bt platform 3 you would go straight ahead and up rather than have to turn left or right for the "second half" of the steps).
I remember these exits being used when excursion trains from places like Weston and Weymouth emptied huge numbers of passengers on to the station.
Limited places were available as First are running ghost tours in the evening of open doors day. An email was sent out 14.50 and full by 15.06. three tours of ten people.
Did anyone strike lucky on this? blink and you missed opportunity.
This was this afternoon that emails were sent.
