Forgotten Stations - Brunel's Old Station, Bristol Temple Meads
The original terminus was built in 1839–41 for the Great Western Railway (GWR), the first passenger railway in Bristol, and was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the railway's engineer. It was built to accommodate Brunel's 7 ft (2,134 mm) broad gauge. The station was on a viaduct to raise it above the level of the Floating Harbour and River Avon, the latter being crossed via the grade I listed Avon Bridge. The station was covered by a 200-foot (60 m) train shed, extended beyond the platforms by 155 feet (47 m) into a storage area and engine shed, fronted by an office building in the Tudor style. Train services to Bath commenced on 31 August 1840 and were extended to Paddington on 30 June 1841 following the completion of Box Tunnel.
A few weeks before the start of the services to Paddington the Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) had opened, on 14 June 1841, its trains reversing in and out of the GWR station. The third railway at Temple Meads was the Bristol and Gloucester Railway, which opened on 8 July 1844 and was taken over by the Midland Railway (MR) on 1 July 1845. This used the GWR platforms, diverging onto its own line on the far side of the bridge over the Floating Harbour. Both these new railways were engineered by Brunel and were initially broad gauge.[10] Brunel also designed the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway, but this was not opened until 25 August 1863, nearly four years after his death. It terminated at Temple Meads.
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SKIPTON to COLNE the missing trans-pennine rail link. Calling @ Foulridge, Earby, Thornton & Elslack
A pleasant walk along what is nicknamed as 'The missing trans-pennine link' following the route of the old line from Skipton through to Colne. There were a small number of barriers to overcome, but when i passed them it was an interesting, if not long, walk. There is a lot of speculation as to whether this line will re-open, i did not experience too many barriers and i personally think it is within central governments budget range, only time will tell.
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The construction of the Skipton-Colne ‘branch’ was an initiative born on the east side of the Pennines as an extension of the Leeds & Bradford Railway (L&B), although it would become part of a trans-Pennine route when it joined the East Lancashire Railway at Colne. An agreement was reached in August 1848 between the East Lancashire and Leeds & Bradford that each company would work its own line to Colne and that there would be a joint station at Colne which the L&B would construct along with a 2-road engine shed. The Skipton-Colne line opened on 2 October 1848 followed by the ELR’s continuation to Burnley on 1 February 1849. The East Lancashire Railway was absorbed by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway on 13 August 1859. From 1856 LYR trains were permitted to run over the Skipton-Colne route.
The cotton-working town of Barnoldswick was missed by the Skipton-Colne line which passed instead through Earby, about 1½ miles to the east. A branch from Earby to Barnoldswick was opened on 8 February 1871. The junction was, appropriately, north-facing providing for direct travel between Barnoldswick and its West Riding neighbours of Earby and Skipton rather than with Colne in Lancashire.
The Colne Branch followed the lowest altitude route (the ‘Foulridge Gap’) through the mid and south Pennines. The railway was the only one that crossed the Pennines between Lancashire and Yorkshire without a tunnel through the hills. Gradients between Skipton North Junction and Colne nowhere exceeded 1 in 141, and the summit near Foulridge was approached at 1 in 396 from Colne and 1 in 231 from Thornton-in-Craven. Reflecting its origins from the Leeds end, travel on the ‘branch’ was described as ‘Up’ towards Skipton and ‘Down’ towards Colne. Beyond Colne on the former East Lancashire / Lancashire & Yorkshire line the descriptions were reversed, ‘Up’ being towards Preston/Manchester and ‘Down’ towards Colne.
From its northern end the Colne Branch left the line to Lancaster, Ingleton and Carlisle at Skipton North Junction, soon crossing the River Aire on an iron bridge with masonry supports (now demolished) and following a route on a rising gradient of 1 in 141 at the edge of the Craven lowlands to Elslack station. A short distance before the next station, Thornton-in-Craven, a branch led northwards to serve Thornton Quarry and lime works, carried by a bridge over the old Skipton –Colne road and passing through a tunnel under the present A56.
Approaching the town of Earby the route of the line leaves what has since 1974 been the county of North Yorkshire and enters Lancashire. The Skipton-Colne line crossed the A56 on the level, beyond which were the goods and then the passenger facilities of Earby station. Immediately beyond the station was a level crossing, and about half a mile onwards the Barnoldswick Branch swung off sharply north-westwards. During World War 1 a Ministry of Munitions (MoM) explosives depot was opened on the flat land on the up side of the railway, a short distance south-west of Barnoldswick Junction, and this was served by loop sidings on the up side of Skipton-Colne line and a branch into the MoM site which split into several sidings to serve a number of explosives stores. The depot closed and the associated railways were removed by the late 1920s.
Lancashire was entered a short distance north of the village of Foulridge. The line was carried over the adjacent Leeds & Liverpool on a low iron viaduct resting on masonry piers (now demolished) before entering Foulridge station. Here the line reached its summit, all other railway routes across the south Pennines required tunnels to cross from east to west, some of them (such as Summit, Standedge, Totley, Cowburn and Woodhead) being of considerable length. The railway re-crossed the canal in its tunnel before reaching the town of Colne. A network of sidings announced the approach to Colne where the station was shared with the East Lancashire (later Lancashire & Yorkshire) company.
The line closed to both passenger and goods traffic on 2 February 1970. Founded in 2001, SELRAP (Skipton East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership) is campaigning to reopen the Skipton to Colne railway line, as part of the rail network of the United Kingdom; its motto is ‘Connecting communities across the North’. The campaign has attracted support from local MPs, councils, businesses and numerous members of the public with its strong economic case to restore the 11½-mile link.
Top Restaurants to Visit in Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire | England - English
Mangotsfield is a town located in Gloucestershire, England. It has a rich history dating back to the Roman times. The name Mangotsfield is derived from the Old English words mangot, meaning mangrove tree, and feld, meaning open land.
During the Roman period, Mangotsfield served as a settlement and was an important stop on the Fosse Way, a major Roman road that connected Exeter in the southwest of England to Lincoln in the northeast. The town grew in importance during the medieval period when it became a center for agriculture and trade.
In the 19th century, Mangotsfield experienced significant industrialization with the establishment of coal mines and brickworks. This led to a population boom and the development of new residential areas. The town also became a hub for the rail
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Bristol is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire, to the north; and Somerset, to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in South West England. The wider Bristol Built-up Area is the eleventh most populous urban area in the United Kingdom.
Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon, and around the beginning of the 11th century, the settlement was known as Brycgstow (Old English the place at the bridge). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373 when it became a county corporate. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities, after London, in tax receipts.
Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European to land on mainland North America. In 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. At the height of the Bristol slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, more than 2,000 slave ships carried an estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas. The Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock.
Bristol's modern economy is built on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries, and the city-centre docks have been redeveloped as centres of heritage and culture. The city has the largest circulating community currency in the UK; the Bristol pound, which is pegged to the Pound sterling. The city has two universities, the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, and a variety of artistic and sporting organisations and venues including the Royal West of England Academy, the Arnolfini, Spike Island, Ashton Gate and the Memorial Stadium. It is connected to London and other major UK cities by road and rail, and to the world by sea and air: road, by the M5 and M4 (which connect to the city centre by the Portway and M32); rail, via Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway mainline rail stations; and Bristol Airport.
One of the UK's most popular tourist destinations, Bristol was named the best city in Britain in which to live in 2014 and 2017, and won the European Green Capital Award in 2015.Bristol's boundaries can be defined in several ways, including those of the city itself, the developed area, or Greater Bristol.
The city council boundary is the narrowest definition of the city itself. However, it unusually includes a large, roughly rectangular section of the western Severn Estuary ending at (but not including) the islands of Flat Holm (in Cardiff, Wales) and Steep Holm.[123] This seaward extension can be traced back to the original boundary of the County of Bristol laid out in the charter granted to the city by Edward III in 1373.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has defined a Bristol Urban Area, which includes developed areas adjoining Bristol but outside the city-council boundary, such as Kingswood, Mangotsfield, Stoke Gifford, Winterbourne, Almondsbury, Easton in Gordano, Whitchurch village, Filton, Patchway and Bradley Stoke, but excludes undeveloped areas within that boundary.
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Avon Gorge and Clifton Suspension Bridge, looking towards the city of Bristol.
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Places to see in ( Bristol - UK ) Avon Valley Railway
Places to see in ( Bristol - UK ) Avon Valley Railway
The Avon Valley Railway (AVR) is a three-mile-long heritage railway based at Bitton station in South Gloucestershire, England, not far from Bristol and is run by a local group: The Avon Valley Railway Company Ltd. The railway follows the Avon Valley south-east from Oldland Common, through Bitton and alongside the River Avon towards Kelston and Bath. The railway shares its route with the Sustrans cycleway and footpath, the Bristol & Bath Railway Path.
Avon Valley Railway is part of the otherwise-dismantled Midland Railway Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line, which was closed in 1966 as a result of the Beeching cuts and due mainly to the Great Western Railway being just a few miles to the south, which also connected Bristol and Bath .
Bitton station and its yard, including some trackbed, was leased from British Railways Board by the Bristol Suburban Railway Society, a group of local volunteers intent on restoring commuter and weekend steam use to the Bristol-Mangotsfield-Bath and Mangotsfield-Yate railway routes.
As a tourist attraction, the Avon Valley Railway now handles 80,000 visitors per year. The AVR provides round trip steam train travel from Bitton Station north to Oldland Common then south to Avon Riverside station. The line is open to travellers on most weekends.
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A Walk Through Green Park Railway Station, Bath, England
Green Park station was opened in 1870 as the terminus of Midland Railway's Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line.
Bath Green Park railway station in 1962
Originally named Queen Square station, it was built in an elegant style which blends well with the Georgian buildings around it and includes a vaulted glass roof in a single-span wrought iron arch structure.
The platform accommodation in the station was modest, having an arrival platform and a departure platform, with two sidings between them. The siding adjacent to the arrival platform was equipped with ground frame points to release an arriving train engine.
The station is on the north bank of the River Avon. The locomotive shed was about half a mile from the station to the north side of the main tracks. The goods yard was on the opposite side of the tracks from this.
The Midland Railway's Bath branch had opened in 1869, but the river Avon bridge and the new station were not ready, so for a year the terminus was at a temporary station to the west of the river.
Grade II listed building, Green Park Station has become an active retail and events space.
Run for many years by Envolve Partnership, a local sustainability enterprise, The Ethical Property Company PLC took over management in November 2008, and now manage all activity on the site, beyond the car park and the Sainsbury's supermarket, which is run by J Sainsbury PLC. The former booking hall is now Green Park Brasserie. The old station concourses are used as a covered market and events space, with a farmers' market, and other regular Saturday traders operating in the market square. Local events and performances are scheduled throughout the year as well, and have included performances for the Bath Fringe Festival. Green Park Station also includes office space in the converted vaults of the station's lower floor, now the base to several local charities and social businesses.
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Another clip from the archives. A pootle around Mangotsfield Station before heading home on the railway path.
Bristol to Bath Cycle Ride | England
Cycle ride from Bristol City Centre to Bath Spa via the popular disused railway line cycle route. This was back in July on my old Diamondback mountain bike. Circa 16 miles / 25 kilometres.
This is one of the best cycle paths in the UK for mostly uninterrupted cycling at a fair speed, plenty of beautiful English countryside and a long railway tunnel to cycle through along with a steam train section of rail.
This will definitely be a route I'll be returning to cycle the extended section past Bath.
Mercure Bristol Holland House Hotel and Spa 4⋆ Review 2019
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The Mercure Bristol Holland House Hotel and Spa is just 10 minutes’ walk from Bristol city center. resorts Mercure Bristol Holland House Hotel and Spa. It features an indoor pool, a fitness suite, and the on-site Urban Bar & Kitchen restaurant. travel Mercure Bristol Holland House Hotel and Spa. All rooms are en suite, and many have views over Redcliff Church. luxury Mercure Bristol Holland House Hotel and Spa. Each also features a TV, a mini-bar, and facilities for making tea and coffee. There is an indoor pool, a fitness suite and spa on site, with 14 beauty treatment rooms. Mercure Bristol Holland House offers a range of pamper packages that are available for guests to enjoy. Full English breakfast is served each morning in the Urban Bar & Kitchen, where guests can also enjoy a meal or drink at the bar. Bristol Temple Meads Rail Station is 10 minutes’ walk from the building. The city’s many local bars and restaurants are only a few minutes’ walk away. .
My trip to Warmley station
This is my first trip to Warmley station. A disused train station on the Bristol and Bath Railway Path.
Great Mitton, All Hallows
The six bells of All Hallows Church. This is the first time all six bells have been rung for a Sunday service since 1970.
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This Month In UK Funfairs - May 2022
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Bath to Bristol England on train
A train ride from Bath to Bristol followed by walk through Bristol, England testing my Apeman A80 action camera. In running order includes the harbourside, city centre / Hippodrome, St Nicholas Market and Stokes Croft.
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Along Old Railways - Frome Great Elm to Radstock Branch
The line to Radstock was formally closed in July 1988, a relatively recent closure. The section between Frome - Great Elm still operates as a mineral line.
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Along Old Railways - Somerset and Dorset - Bath to Wellow
A look along the remains of the former Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway, focusing on the section through Bath Oldfield Park, over the current main line & through the Devonshire & Combe Hill Tunnels, and on to the small village of Wellow.