Filton Abbey Wood railway station
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| Filton Abbey Wood | |
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| 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°WCoordinates: 51°30′18″N 2°33′45″W / 51.5049°N 2.5624°W |
| Operations | |
| Station code | FIT |
| Managed by | First Great Western |
| Platforms in use | 3 |
| Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail |
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| 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 |
Following station | ||
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| 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
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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