Redland railway station

Redland
Location
Place	Redland
Local authority	Bristol
Coordinates	51.4683°N 2.5994°W / 51.4683; -2.5994
Operations
Station code	RDA
Managed by	First Great Western
Number of platforms	1
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *	50,293
2004/05 *	50,063
2005/06 *	55,529
2006/07 *	66,852
2007/08 *	61,394
2008/09 *	86,234
History
1897	Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Redland from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Bristol Area Railway Map

Legend Cross Country Route Thornbury Branch Line Yate South Wales Main Line New Passage Pier Westerleigh Junction New Passage Halt Cross Hands Halt South Wales Main Line Pilning Severn Beach Coalpit Heath Crooks Marsh Winterbourne Bristol Parkway Grey line represents Patchway boundary of Bristol Ram Hill Colliery Avonmouth Docks Chittening Platform St Andrews Road Henbury Avonmouth (Royal Edward) Hallen Halt Avonmouth (BPRP) Charlton Halt North Filton Platform Avonmouth Docks Westerleigh Goods Depot Avonmouth Filton Junction Avonmouth Light Railway Filton Avonmouth Docks Filton Abbey Wood Shirehampton Horfield Sea Mills Ashley Hill Clifton Down Tunnel Mangotsfield (1845-1869) Clifton Down Mangotsfield (1869-1966) Redland Staple Hill Montpelier Fishponds Hotwells Halt Hotwells Stapleton Road Warmley Lawrence Hill Waste depot Oldland Common Bristol St Philips Temple Meads goods depot St Mary Redcliffe tunnel Bristol Temple Meads Bristol Temple Meads Bristol Harbour Railway St Philips Marsh T&RSMD Bedminster Parson Street Bristol Docks (North) Bristol Docks (South) West Depot East Depot Bitton Ashton Gate St Anne's Park Clifton Bridge Brislington Nightingale Valley Halt Long Ashton Ham Green Halt Avon Riverside Pill Keynsham Portbury Shipyard Whitchurch Halt Royal Portbury Dock Kelston Saltford Portbury Portishead (1954-1964) Mangotsfield Branch Line WC&PLR Great Western Main Line Portishead (1879-1954) Bristol & N. Somerset Rly. Portishead Pier Bristol to Exeter Line

Redland railway station is a small station on the Severn Beach Line on South Road in Redland, Bristol, England. It was opened 12 years after the line, in April 1897, following a petition by local residents. It lies between Montpelier railway station and Clifton Down railway station. It is a single-track station and so has only one platform. The station is managed and the service is operated by First Great Western.

History

The station as it was in 1912, from an illustration by Samuel Loxton.

The station has only a perch bench and shelter provided by the now obsolete Victorian station building, which is rented to a company not connected with the railways. The station is unstaffed and there is one ticket machine which was installed in February 2011 but is not yet in service. The station was opened on 12 April 1897 and originally had two platforms, with buildings on each platform and entrance via a ticket office on Redland Grove. The second line was removed and the buildings demolished in the early 1970s, though the entrance was still through the ticket office for a period of time after, before an entrance was added through the area containing the South Road residents' garages.

Between 25 and 28 February 2010, the recently installed Customer Help Point was stolen from the station.

Services

Services at Redland are all operated by First Great Western, using mainly Class 150 Sprinter units. Monday to Friday, three trains every two hours run from Bristol Temple Meads to Avonmouth, with one extended to St Andrew's Road and Severn Beach, giving a service at Montpelier of one train in each direction every 40 minutes. On Saturdays there is a similar level of service, but more trains continue to Severn Beach. Sunday sees a roughly hourly service to and from Bristol, with only two services extending to Severn Beach, except from the May timetable change until September, when all services are extended.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Clifton Down		First Great Western Severn Beach Line		Montpelier
	Historical railways
Clifton Down		Great Western Railway Clifton Extension Railway		Montpelier
		Midland Railway Clifton Extension Railway

Proposed improvements

In March 2007 First Great Western, published details of the improvements they plan to undertake over the next three years, at Redland they are:

• CCTV
• Help and information points
• Public address system
• Repaint canopy
• Clean brickwork
• Clear disused platform

See also

• Rail services in Bristol