Bristol Temple Meads railway station
General information | |
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Location | Redcliffe, Bristol England |
Coordinates | 51°26′56″N 2°34′48″W / 51.449°N 2.580°W |
Grid reference | ST597725 |
Managed by | Network Rail |
Platforms | 13 in use |
Other information | |
Station code | BRI |
Classification | DfT category A |
History | |
Original company | Great Western Railway |
Key dates | |
1840 | Opened |
1871–1878 | Extended |
1930s | Extended |
1965 | Original platforms closed |
Passengers | |
2018/19 | 11.368 million |
Interchange | 1.454 million |
2019/20 | 11.619 million |
Interchange | 1.632 million |
2020/21 | 2.033 million |
Interchange | 0.277 million |
2021/22 | 6.628 million |
Interchange | 0.971 million |
2022/23 | 9.292 million |
Interchange | 1.242 million |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
Feature | Temple Meads Station |
Designated | 1 November 1966 |
Reference no. | 1282106[1] |
Location | |
Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Bristol Temple Meads is the oldest and largest railway station in Bristol, England. It is located 118 miles 31 chains (118.39 mi; 190.5 km) away from London Paddington.[2] It is an important transport hub for public transport in the city; there are bus services to many parts of the city and surrounding districts, with a ferry to the city centre. Bristol's other major station, Bristol Parkway, is a more recent station on the northern outskirts of the conurbation. It is the busiest station in South West England.[3]
Temple Meads was opened on 31 August 1840, as the western terminus of the Great Western Railway. The railway, including Temple Meads, was the first to be designed by the British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Soon, the station was also used by the Bristol and Exeter Railway, the Bristol and Gloucester Railway, the Bristol Harbour Railway and the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway. To accommodate the increasing number of trains, the station was expanded in the 1870s by Francis Fox and again between 1930 and 1935 by Percy Emerson Culverhouse.[1] Brunel's terminus is no longer part of the operational station. The historical significance of the station has been noted and most of the site is Grade I listed.[1] In Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations by Simon Jenkins, the station was one of only ten to be awarded five stars.[4]
Thirteen platforms are in use,[5] numbered between 1 and 15, but passenger trains are confined to just eight tracks. Most platforms are numbered separately at each end, with odd numbers at the east end and even numbers at the west. Platform 2 is a bay platform at the west end which not used by passenger trains and there is no platform 14.[6]
Temple Meads is managed by Network Rail.[7] Most services are operated by the present-day Great Western Railway, with others by CrossCountry.
History
The name Temple Meads derives from the nearby Temple Church, which was gutted by bombing during World War II.[8] The word "meads" is a derivation of "mæd", an Old English variation of "mædwe", meadow, referring to the water meadows alongside the River Avon that were part of Temple parish. As late as 1820 the site was undeveloped pasture outside the boundaries of the old city,[9] some distance from the commercial centre. It lay between the Floating Harbour and the city's cattle market, which was built in 1830.
Brunel's station
The original terminus was built in 1839–41 for the
A few weeks before the start of the services to Paddington the Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER) had opened, on 14 June 1841,[13] 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.[12] 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.[13] 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.
Bristol and Exeter Railway station
In 1845 the B&ER built its own station at right angles to the GWR station and an "express platform" on the curve linking the two lines so that through trains no longer had to reverse. The wooden B&ER station was known locally as "The Cowshed";[11] but a grand headquarters was built at street level on the west side of its station in 1852–54 to the Jacobean designs of Samuel Fripp.[10] The Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway opened a branch off the Bristol and Exeter line west of the city on 18 April 1867, the trains being operated by the B&ER and using its platforms at Temple Meads.[14]
In 1850 an
Goods stations
The GWR built a 326-by-138-foot (99 m × 42 m)
The B&ER had a goods depot at Pylle Hill (south of the station) from 1850, and the MR had an independent yard at Avonside Wharf on the opposite side of the Floating Harbour from 1858.[17]
Effects of the change of gauge
On 29 May 1854 the Midland Railway laid a third rail along their line to Gloucester to provide
The B&ER converted the line to Taunton to mixed gauge by 1 June 1875, but the remainder of the line to Exeter was not done until 1 March 1876, three months after the B&ER had amalgamated with the GWR. The remainder of the lines beyond Exeter were converted to standard gauge on 21 May 1892[13] so the extra rails at Temple Meads fell into disuse and were removed to leave a purely standard gauge layout. This allowed the through station to be rebuilt with two additional platform faces.[11]
1870s expansion
The additional railway routes put the two short 140-yard (130 m) platforms of Brunel's terminus under pressure and a scheme was developed to extend the station. An enabling
Trains on the Bristol and South Wales Union and the Midland routes operated from the terminal platforms, while the GWR used the new through platforms.[11] The capital costs of the new work were split 4/14 GWR/B&ER and 10/14 MR, and operating costs were split GWR 3/8, MR 3/8 and B&ER 2/8. Hence, when the GWR absorbed the B&ER in 1876 the split became GWR 5/8 and MR (later LMS) 3/8, until nationalisation on 1 January 1948.[20]
Twentieth-century changes
In 1924 the goods depot was rebuilt with 15 platforms, each 575 feet (175 m) long. Large warehousing and cellar space was provided to store goods, although by this time another city centre goods depot had been opened at
Between 1930 and 1935 the through station was expanded under the direction of the GWR's chief architect P E Culverhouse, in
As part of this work, four
During World War II the station was bombed, which led to the destruction of the wooden spire of the clock tower above the ticket office on 3 January 1941.[18] Gas lighting was replaced by fluorescent electric lights in 1960.[17]
Bristol Panel Signal Box was built on the site of Platform 14. When opened, it controlled 280 multiple-aspect signals and 243 motor-worked points on 114 miles (183 km) of route, the largest area controlled by a single signal box on British Rail at the time.[21]
The construction of this signal box, completed in 1970, involved the demolition of almost half of the 1870s extension to Brunel's terminus and completely blocked rail access to the Old Station.[22]
A second main-line station serving the city, Bristol Parkway, opened in 1972. It is on the northern outskirts of the conurbation close to the M32 motorway and was designed as a park and ride facility for long-distance travellers.[23]
In the late 1960s the Royal Mail built a mail conveyor at the northern end of the station, with significant aesthetic impact. This was out of use for many years following the transfer of Royal Mail's activities to the West of England Mail Centre at Filton and the opening of the short-lived Railnet Hub next to Bristol Parkway station in May 2000.[24] It was finally dismantled in stages and removed between October and December 2014.[25] In 1990/91, £2 million was spent by InterCity on a renovation of the main train shed and another £7 million 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.[18]
In August 1998, a 15-month, £7 million project commenced with work performed on the external facade, clocktower, roof and paving.[26][27] As part of this work, the quarry from which the dolomite stone had originally been extracted was reopened in Abbots Leigh.[28]
Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
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St Anne's Park | Great Western Railway To London via Box |
Bedminster | ||
Lawrence Hill | Pilning via Avonmouth
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Brislington | Great Western Railway To Radstock |
Terminus | ||
Fishponds | Bristol and Gloucester Railway (later Midland Railway) |
Terminus |
Closure of lines
Passenger traffic on the old North Somerset line ceased on 2 November 1959, and many more closures followed after the publication of
On 12 September 1965, the terminal platforms were closed. This allowed the platforms to be renumbered with the order reversed (see list below).[17] The redundant train shed became a covered car park in February of the following year, but from 1989 until 1999 the original (Brunel) part was an interactive science centre known as The Exploratory and an exhibition space. From 2002 to 2008, it housed the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum.[30] As of 2016[update], the shed, now known as the Passenger Shed, is a venue for events such as conferences and weddings.[31]
Old | New | Location |
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1 | 15 | |
2 | 13 | |
3 | 12 | West end |
4 | 11 | East end |
5 | 9 & 10 | East and west ends numbered differently |
6 | 7 & 8 | East and west ends numbered differently |
7 | 5 | East end in the main train shed |
8 | 6 | West end beyond (new ) platform 5 |
9 | 3 | East end in the main train shed |
10 | 4 | West end beyond (new) platform 3 |
11 | 2 | West end bay (not in use) |
12 | 1 | East end of arrival platform |
13 | Closed | West end of arrival platform |
14 | Closed | East end of departure platform |
15 | Closed | West end of departure platform |
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Grey lines represent trainsheds U = Up through line D = Down through line |
Enterprise zone and station redevelopment
Bristol and Exeter House has been redeveloped by TCN UK as a business hub for
Plans to build a 12,000-capacity arena
21st century
The Great Western Main Line from London to Bristol was part of
The
The Metro scheme could also see the reopening of the Henbury Loop Line to passengers, with the possibility of services from Temple Meads to Bristol Parkway via Clifton Down and Henbury.[45] Plans for a loop were rejected by the West of England Joint Transport Board, but in July 2015 Bristol City Councillors voted to send the decision back to the board for further discussion.[51][52]
On 1 April 2014, Network Rail took over management of the station from First Great Western.[7][53]
A new station reception was opened in 2023, replacing the information desk on platform three.[54]
Refurbishment
In 2013, it was announced that the station roof would be refurbished as part of a scheme to transform the station over the 25 years commencing 2013.[55] In September 2021, foundations were installed for a planned eastern entrance to the station.[56] Following the erection of scaffolding inside the station, work on the roof began in April 2022.[57]
Description
Approaches
Although it is now possible to reach the station through the Temple Quay office development (on the site of the
Opposite these offices are the Grosvenor Hotel and the derelict George Railway Hotel, which were built in the 1870s,
On the right of the Station Approach but at a lower level is the B&ER office building designed by Samuel Fripp; the 1930s offices known as "Collett House" (named after Charles Collett) and a disused parcels depot lie beyond. On the left is Brunel's original station building. The train shed is 72 feet (22 m) wide with a wooden box-frame roof and cast iron columns disguised as hammerbeams above Tudor arches. It is believed to be the widest hammerbeam roof in England and, along with most of the station, is a Grade 1 listed building,[58][59] and forms part of a proposed Great Western Railway World Heritage Site.[60] At the top of the slope an entrance on the left to the covered car park marks the junction between the original terminus and Fox's 1870s extension.
Ahead is the turreted main station building, and to the right a flat area marks the site of the B&ER station. The tunnel beneath this area was the route for passengers to and from the Down platform from 1878 until the station was enlarged in 1935.[18]
Outside the old station building is a statue of Brunel, moved here in 2021 but first erected in the city centre in 1982.[61]
Station
Entering the main building, the ticket office and ticket machines are immediately ahead, and the route from Temple Quay and the ferry is on the left; a newsagent is on the right, next to the platform entrance.[5] Customer Information System screens by the entrance show arrival and departure information for all platforms, as do displays on each of the platforms.
There are 13 numbered platforms serving 8 tracks. The platforms are numbered from 1–15 with 2 and 14 omitted. Platforms 1, 13 and 15 do not share tracks with any other platform. Platforms 3–12 consist of five tracks that are each subdivided into a pair of numbered platforms. Of those, the odd numbered platforms are at the north end of the station, while even numbers are at the south end.[62] All platforms are signalled for trains in either direction and the flexible layout means that trains on any route can use any part of the station.[63]
Entrance to the platforms is controlled by automatic ticket gates on Platform 3, which is used by many northbound
On the right of the entrance is the subway that links all the platforms, reached either by steps or lift;[64] it houses the main public toilets, automated teller machines (ATM) and several catering outlets (there is catering on all platform islands except 13–15). A passenger information office and lounge are above the subway, the British Transport Police office and cycle racks are beyond,[64] and at the western end is Platform 4, used by only a few trains. Alongside this is Platform 2, another bay platform but not signalled for passenger trains and used only for stabling empty trains, as is the former Motorail unloading bay alongside. At the far end of this track is the old Fish Dock, occasionally used for stabling engineers' on-track equipment. Beyond the end of the platform the tracks swing to the right (the west) and pass out of sight beneath Bath Road Bridge, a girder bridge that carries the A4 out of the city.
The first island platform comprises platforms 5 to 8. Platform 5 is inside the main train shed while 6 is a southerly extension and 7 and 8 were added outside the supporting wall in the 1930s.[18] Platform 5 is used by trains towards Cardiff and platform 7 to Portsmouth; platforms 6 and 8 are the main platforms for Weston-super-Mare and stations to Penzance. Between platforms 5 and 7 are the two spur sidings that are long enough to stable a single Class 153 DMU.
The third island platform comprises platforms 9 to 12 and also dates from the 1930s.
The final island platform is shorter and only has east-end platforms 13 and 15: 15 is used by most trains from Paddington that continue westwards to Weston-super-Mare or beyond. Platform 13 is a terminus platform and is used by many trains from Paddington, some local services and occasionally by CrossCountry. There is another siding beyond platform 15 that used to be the In/out Road for
To the north of the station lies Arriva TrainCare's Barton Hill TMD, and to the south-east of the station lies St Philip's Marsh depot which services the Great Western Railway fleet. This is accessible from both ends of Temple Meads station.
Other facilities include pay phones, public Wi-Fi, a post box, photo booth, and passenger assistance such as information points, waiting rooms, a lost property office, first aid room, and CCTV.[64]
Passenger volume
Temple Meads is the busiest station in the Bristol area. Official statistics show it to have the 35th-largest number of people entering or leaving any national rail station, the 14th busiest outside London. Comparing the year from April 2009 with the year from April 2002, estimated passenger numbers increased by 52%.[note 1]
2002–03 | 2004–05 | 2005–06 | 2006–07 | 2007–08 | 2008–09 | 2009–10 | 2010–11 | 2011–12 | 2012–13 | 2013–14 | |
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Entries | 2,590,543 | 2,823,258 | 3,039,104 | 3,279,898 | 3,541,946 | 3,914,814 | 3,937,843 | 4,204,670 | 4,442,313 | 4,549,684 | 4,761,420 |
Exits | 2,586,575 | 2,818,114 | 3,027,136 | 3,268,961 | 3,540,152 | 3,914,814 | 3,937,843 | 4,204,670 | 4,442,313 | 4,549,684 | 4,761,420 |
Interchanges | unknown | 798,961 | 856,644 | 917,595 | 845,178 | 890,706 | 979,955 | 1,107,555 | 1,327,179 | 1,386,664 | 1,434,465 |
Total | 5,177,118 | 6,440,333 | 6,922,883 | 7,466,454 | 7,927,276 | 8,720,334 | 8,855,641 | 9,516,895 | 10,211,805 | 10,486,032 | 10,957,305 |
The statistics cover twelve-month periods that start in April.
Services
Rail
Great Western Railway operates main line services between Bristol Temple Meads and London Paddington, some of which continue beyond Bristol to Weston-super-Mare or Taunton.[66] The company also operates other routes through Bristol such as between Cardiff Central and Portsmouth Harbour,[67] Cardiff Central and Taunton including extensions as far as Penzance,[68] Worcester Foregate Street/Gloucester[69] and Westbury/Weymouth,[70] and Severn Beach and Weston-super-Mare.[71]
Regular
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Bristol Parkway | CrossCountry Scotland and North England – South West England |
Taunton | ||
Bath Spa | Great Western Railway Great Western Main Line |
Nailsea & Backwell
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Filton Abbey Wood | Cardiff Central – Penzance
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Nailsea & Backwell
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Great Western Railway Cardiff Central – Portsmouth |
Bath Spa | |||
Lawrence Hill | Great Western Railway Worcester – Weymouth |
Keynsham | ||
Severn Beach - Weston-super-Mare
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Bedminster |
Bus
Bus services at the station include the
See also
- Rail services in Bristol
- Commuter rail in the United Kingdom
Notes
- ^ Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Patchway, from Office of Rail and Road statistics.[65] Methodology may vary year on year.
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Further reading
- Buchanan, RA; Williams, M (1982). Brunel's Bristol. Bristol: Redcliffe Press. ISBN 0-905459-39-3.
- Gomme, A; Jenner, M; Little, B (1979). Bristol: an Architectural History. London: Lund Humphries. ISBN 0-85331-409-8.
- Harris, Peter (1987). Bristol's Railway Mania 1862–1864. Bristol: Bristol Branch of the Historical Association. ISBN 0-901388-49-1.
- OCLC 30919645.
External links
- Train times and station information for Bristol Temple Meads railway station from National Rail
- Detailed historic record for Bristol Temple Meads railway station, English Heritage
- Bristol Temple Meads Station (excerpts from original plans), Network Rail Archive
- Panoramic photograph inside the train shed
- Photographs of Bristol Temple Meads