Bristol Parkway railway station

Bristol Parkway is a railway station on the northern outskirts of Bristol, UK. It is located near the suburb of Stoke Gifford in the district of South Gloucestershire and is served by trains of the companies First Great Western and Cross Country. In operation 2004 /05 took 1.465 million passengers this station.

Five kilometers to the south, near the city center, is the second main train station, Temple Meads.

History

The station was built at the beginning of the 1970s on the South Wales Main Line. There were numerous reasons for a new railway station at Stoke Gifford: The trains between London and South Wales had to Swindon from no longer the time-consuming detour to Bath and Bristol Temple Meads take, it was a large car park to be built and the population of the northern suburbs increased rapidly to (especially since the construction of the satellite town of Bradley Stoke).

Was opened the station on 1 May 1972. The station building was architecturally unremarkable, a single low rise on the north side of the tracks with a pedestrian bridge to the two platforms. On 1 July 2001, the opening of a new two-storey building, no longer located at the western end of the plant, but added a little more to the center. The pedestrian bridge was equipped for the disabled with the installation of lifts. The conversion cost Network Rail over 4 million pounds. In January 2007, the construction of a third platform, which was commissioned in May of 2007 began. 2008/ 09 the capacity of the station is to be increased with the construction of a fourth platform again.