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Information on Bristol Temple Meads Station



 The Great Western Railway was born in Bristol and the boardroom used by the ‘Bristol Committee’ still looks out from the buildings of the original Brunel terminus, from which the first train departed at 8am on 31 August 1840. Over the next five years the GWR line to London was completed, its influence was extended westwards by the Bristol & Exeter Railway, and the Midland snatched the Bristol & Gloucester company from right under its nose. The B&E opened its own station in the Temple Meads complex, linked with the GWR by a connecting curve and that company added some handsome Jacobean-style offices opposite the 1840 terminal in 1854.

Traffic at Bristol steadily outgrew capacity and a new GWR/R station was brought into use on 1 January 1878, owing its Gothic architectural styling to Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt. In 1935-36 the station was lengthened over the adjoining waterways and given an extra platform and two islands. It remains very much in this for, although the outer island is not now used and the trackwork was simplified in a 1970 resignalling scheme.

Although the 1840 station became non operational in 1966, it is now being cared for by the Brunel Engineering Centre Trust, its period buildings gracefully restored and the mock hammer-beam roof preserved. With the 1854 B&E building and the dramatic frontage of the 1878 station it makes the Temple Meads approach one of the most impressive to be found anywhere. It contrasts markedly with the simple, modern station at Bristol Parkway whose two platforms and huge car park have competed very successfully with the adjacent M4 motorway since 1972.

Beneath the frontal awning at Temple Meads is a plaque to Emma Saunders, a lady whose concern earned her the title ‘the railwayman’s friend’. An ornate entrance area then leads to the most-used platform, No 3, where the main facilities are concentrated.

In 1990-91 £2,000,000 was spent on a renovation of the main train shed and another £7,000,000 on restoring some of the older areas of the station, including the refurbishment of the subway and construction of new retail outlets. The shorter of the two 1935 platform islands had been used only for parcels traffic since the 1960s but was temporarily brought back into passenger use during this work. It was fully restored for passenger use in 2001.

Information on train services from Bristol Temple Meads Station



First Great Western operate and provide main line services to London Paddington Station, long distance services to Cardiff Central and the South Coast, local services to Weston-super-Mare, Taunton and Gloucester.

South West Trains operate an alternative service to London Waterloo.


Cross Country run regular services to Plymouth and Penzance in the west, to Birmingham and Manchester in the north and to Scotland


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