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Long Ashton
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:17 pm
by TheNewNo2
Hi everyone.
I was reading your article on Long Ashton station, as I was researching for the en.wikipedia article. Your page says there was a station there from 1841-1856, and I was wondering where this information came from - I haven't found any other references to such a station, only to the 1926-1941 one.
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 5:37 pm
by madhattie
The info comes from the Colin Maggs book Bristol Railway Panorama. He says the B&E opened a station called 'Ashton' at the same spot at which Long Ashton was built. Opened with the opening of the B&E in 1841, closed in 1856.
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:21 pm
by TheNewNo2
My problem is that I don't have that book, and as best I can tell there are no other references to such an early station at Long Ashton anywhere else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_railway_station curiously lists Ashton as being another name for Bedminster (something else I can't find any other mention of).
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:07 pm
by 43126
madhattie wrote:The info comes from the Colin Maggs book Bristol Railway Panorama. He says the B&E opened a station called 'Ashton' at the same spot at which Long Ashton was built. Opened with the opening of the B&E in 1841, closed in 1856.
There is also a photo on page 131.
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 12:48 am
by madhattie
It's also in RA Cooke's maps of the GWR. Long Ashton, site of Ashton.