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Temple Meads - Bristol Doors Open Day
Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 12:58 pm
by jules
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!
Advance booking essential. email
nikki.wilcox@firstgroup.com
to book a place.
For other great places to visit on the day, see:
http://www.bristoldoorsopenday.org/venues.htm
Can particularly recommend St Vincents Works in Silverthorne Lane if you like a spot of Victorian Industrial grandeur
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 3:58 pm
by stopblock
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
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:12 pm
by WHEELTAPPER
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
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:30 pm
by Robin Summerhill
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.
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:02 pm
by mow
A view of Temple Meads Station and Bristol's Enterprise Zone.
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 1:01 pm
by mow
Another view of the layout of Temple Meads Station.
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:55 am
by nickt
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.
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 9:06 am
by jules
I've got a ticket for 10:30am I think. Emailed FGW back in June and they sent an invite letter straight back ...
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:33 pm
by andy hole
I was on the 11:45 tour this morning. It was very imformative and great to look around such a great place.