Filton Abbey Wood railway station

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Filton Abbey Wood
Filton Abbey Wood station, viewed from the southern end of platform 2
Location
Place Filton
Local authority South Gloucestershire
Operations
Station code FIT
Managed by First Great Western
Platforms in use 3
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 * 0.377 million
2005/06 * 0.401 million
History
8 September 1863 Opened (Filton)
4 October 1886 Resited
1 May 1910 Renamed (Filton Junction)
6 May 1968 Renamed (Filton)
11 March 1996 Rebuilt and renamed (Filton Abbey Wood)
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z  

* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Filton Abbey Wood from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Filton Abbey Wood railway station, (near Bristol, England) was opened on 11 March 1996, replacing the original Filton station which stands to the north of the current site.

In the Strategic Rail Authority’s 2005/06 financial year, Filton Abbey Wood was ranked as the 647th most-used station in Great Britain, making it one of the busiest unstaffed stations.

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[edit] History

The station was built by the Ministry of Defence to serve its nearby office complex. It has a passenger information system, and a temporary building that serves as a limited-hours ticket office, although of late this has not been staffed during the advertised opening hours. A self-service ticket machine is situated adjacent to the ticket office, on platform 1.

There have been three Filton stations on a short stretch of line in this area. The first, on the Bristol to New Passage Pier line opened in 1863, was just north of the present station; it closed in 1903. Services were then diverted to the Filton Junction station further north (on the northern side of the A4174 ring road. This in turn closed when services moved to the present station, about a quarter of a mile south of Filton Junction, on 11 March 1996.

In 2004 a third platform was added to provide additional line capacity by having the South Wales and Bristol Parkway routes diverge before the station.

[edit] Station facilities

Station facilities at Filton Abbey Wood include: -

Customer Information System
Pay Phone

[edit] Services

  Preceding station     National Rail     Following station  
Bristol Temple Meads   CrossCountry
Newcastle - Cardiff (Limited Service)
  Patchway
Bristol Temple Meads
or Stapleton Road
  First Great Western
Great Malvern/Gloucester - Westbury
  Bristol Parkway
  First Great Western
Cardiff - Taunton
  Patchway
Bristol Temple Meads   First Great Western
Cardiff - Brighton/Portsmouth/Weymouth
  Newport
  First Great Western
Weston-Super-Mare - Bristol Parkway
  Bristol Parkway

[edit] Station Layout

Platform 1 - Southbound services to Bristol Temple Meads.

Platform 2 - Northbound services to Bristol Parkway, and onwards to the Midlands or London Paddington.

Platform 3 - Northbound/Westbound services to South Wales via Patchway and the Severn Tunnel.

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Coordinates: 51°30′18″N 2°33′45″W / 51.5049, -2.5624