Mangotsfield railway station

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Mangotsfield railway station was a station on the Midland Railway main line from Gloucester to Bristol and was situated about five miles to the north east of Bristol in what is now the suburb of Mangotsfield.

The station was the junction for the line that led to Bath Green Park railway station and on southwards over the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway to Bournemouth. It was unusual in that it had platforms facing each of the three lines on the triangular junction. Part of the line to Bath now forms the Avon Valley Railway, which has its headquarters at Bitton.

The station closed in 1966 when services between Bristol and Bath on the line were withdrawn; stopping services between Bristol and Gloucester on the Midland line had been withdrawn in 1965 and the last regular through passenger train to use the third side of the triangle, which connected Bath and Gloucester, had ended in 1962 with the re-routing of the Pines Express away from the Midland and Somerset & Dorset lines, though some freight used it later.