Future
The car park is set to be increased to around 1,500 spaces, and a fourth platform will be built. When the fourth platform opens it will help ease to congestion for trains heading south and to South Wales; it has been confirmed that it will be numbered platform 1. The fourth platform has not got built as of 2012, although will most likely get built when electrification takes places due to additional planned services.
The station has been identified as a possible northern terminus for a light rail system in the Bristol area.
The South Wales Main Line and the line connecting Bristol Parkway to Bristol Temple Meads are to be electrified by 2018.
Read more about this topic: Bristol Parkway Railway Station
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