Filton Abbey Wood railway station

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Filton Abbey Wood
Filton Abbey Wood
View south from the footbridge.
Location
Place Filton
Local authority South Gloucestershire
Coordinates 51°30′18″N 2°33′45″W / 51.5049°N 2.5624°W / 51.5049; -2.5624Coordinates: 51°30′18″N 2°33′45″W / 51.5049°N 2.5624°W / 51.5049; -2.5624
Operations
Station code FIT
Managed by First Great Western
Platforms in use 3
Live arrivals/departures and station information
from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 * 0.395 million
2004/05 * 0.378 million
2005/06 * 401,325
2006/07 * 410,630
2007/08 * 457,661
History
Original company Railtrack
1863 Opened as "Filton"
1886 Resited
1910 Renamed "Filton Junction"
1968 Renamed "Filton"
1996 Rebuilt and renamed "Filton Abbey Wood"
2004 New Platform Added
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Filton Abbey Wood from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

Filton Abbey Wood railway station, (near Bristol, England) was opened on 11 March 1996, replacing the original Filton station which stands to the north of the current site.

In the Strategic Rail Authority’s 2005/06 financial year, Filton Abbey Wood was ranked as the 647th most-used station in Great Britain, making it one of the busiest unstaffed stations in the country.

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[edit] History

There have been three Filton stations on a short stretch of line in this area. The first, on the Bristol to New Passage Pier line opened on 8 September 1863, was just north of the present station; it was resited on 4 October 1886. Services were then diverted to a station further north (on the northern side of the present day A4174 ring road) which was renamed Filton Junction on 1 May 1910. This was renamed as just Filton on 6 May 1968 but it in turn closed when services moved to the present station, about a quarter of a mile south of the actual junction, on 11 March 1996.

The new station was built by the Ministry of Defence[citation needed] to serve its nearby office complex. It has a passenger information system, and a temporary building that serves as a limited-hours ticket office, which has only been used sporadically in recent years when First do random "spot checks" to ensure all travelers have tickets. A self-service ticket machine is situated adjacent to the ticket office, on platform 1.

In 2004 a third platform was added to provide additional line capacity by having the South Wales and Bristol Parkway routes diverge before the station.

[edit] Services

The station receives regular calls by trains on the Bristol to Cardiff route, many of which continue beyond Bristol to destinations such as Taunton, Weymouth and Portsmouth Harbour. There is also a regular service to Bristol Parkway, Gloucester and Worcester.


Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Bristol Temple Meads
or Stapleton Road
  First Great Western
Great Malvern/Gloucester - Westbury/Weymouth
  Bristol Parkway
  First Great Western
Cardiff - Taunton
  Patchway
Bristol Temple Meads   First Great Western
Cardiff - Brighton/Portsmouth
  Newport
  First Great Western
Weston-Super-Mare - Bristol Parkway
  Bristol Parkway
Stapleton Road   First Great Western
Bristol Parkway - Bristol Temple Meads
  Bristol Parkway

[edit] Station Layout

158963 at Platform 3 with a service towards Cardiff

Platform 1 - Southbound services to Bristol Temple Meads.

Platform 2 - Northbound services to Bristol Parkway, and onwards to the Midlands or London Paddington.

Platform 3 - Northbound/Westbound services to South Wales via Patchway and the Severn Tunnel.

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