After Closure
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Bristol Area Railway Map |
Legend
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Cross Country Route |
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Thornbury Branch Line |
| Yate |
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South Wales Main Line |
| New Passage Pier |
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| New Passage Halt |
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Cross Hands Halt |
| South Wales Main Line |
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Pilning |
| Severn Beach |
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Coalpit Heath |
| Crooks Marsh |
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Winterbourne |
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Bristol Parkway |
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Patchway |
| boundary of Bristol |
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Ram Hill Colliery |
| Avonmouth Docks |
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Chittening Platform |
| St Andrews Road |
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Hallen Halt |
| Avonmouth (Royal Edward) |
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Henbury |
| Avonmouth (BPRP) |
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Charlton Halt |
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North Filton Platform |
| Avonmouth Docks |
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Westerleigh Goods Depot |
| Avonmouth |
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Filton Junction |
| Avonmouth Light Railway |
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Filton |
| Avonmouth Docks |
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Filton Abbey Wood |
| Shirehampton |
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Horfield |
| Sea Mills |
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Ashley Hill |
| Clifton Down Tunnel |
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Mangotsfield |
| Clifton Down |
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Mangotsfield |
| Redland |
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Staple Hill |
| Montpelier |
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Fishponds |
| Hotwells Halt |
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| Hotwells |
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Narroways Junction |
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Stapleton Road sidings |
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Stapleton Road |
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Warmley |
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Lawrence Hill |
| Waste depot |
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Oldland Common |
| Bristol St Philips |
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Temple Meads goods depot |
| St Mary Redcliffe tunnel |
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| Bristol Temple Meads |
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Bristol Temple Meads |
| Bristol Harbour Railway |
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St Philips Marsh T&RSMD |
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Bedminster |
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Parson Street |
| Bristol Docks (North) |
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| Bristol Docks (South) |
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West Depot |
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East Depot |
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Bitton |
| Ashton Gate |
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St Anne's Park |
| Clifton Bridge |
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Brislington |
| Nightingale Valley Halt |
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Long Ashton |
| Ham Green Halt |
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Avon Riverside |
| Pill |
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Keynsham |
| Portbury Shipyard |
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Whitchurch Halt |
| Royal Portbury Dock |
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Kelston |
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Saltford |
| Portbury |
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| Portishead |
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Mangotsfield Branch Line |
| WC&PLR |
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Great Western Main Line |
| Portishead |
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Bristol & N. Somerset Rly. |
| Portishead Pier |
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Bristol to Exeter Line |
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The route of the former railway has remained largely intact, although the former rural villages have become absorbed into a developing conurbation incorporating Bath and Bristol.
A footpath and cycleway was formed over much of the route (and continuing into Bristol); it is described at Bristol and Bath Railway Path. A roundabout and part of the carriageway of the A4174 road occupy the alignment near Siston and northwards.
After closure of the Bristol - Gloucester line in 1970 (trains were diverted to another route between Bristol and Yate) the Bristol Suburban Railway Society was formed, announcing plans to operate a commuter service over the lines independently, but this failed to attract the necessary resources. Instead, much of the route was converted to use as a footpath and cycle route; this has become the Bristol and Bath Railway Path.
However a railway preservation group, the Avon Valley Railway, is based at Bitton, operating heritage steam trains over part of the route.
At Bath, the passenger station remains intact, and is in use as a retail and exhibition space; a major supermarket and its car park occupy the railway lands immediately to the west of the river bridge.