Montpelier railway station

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Montpelier
Location
Place	Montpelier
Local authority	Bristol
Operations
Station code	MTP
Managed by	First Great Western
Platforms in use	1
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	65,108
2005/06 *	73,573
History
Key dates	Opened 1 October 1874[1]
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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 Montpelier from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Montpelier railway station is located in Montpelier, Bristol, England. It is a single-platformed station, 4 km (2¾ miles) west of Bristol Temple Meads on the Severn Beach Line. The station is managed and the service is operated by First Great Western. It is next to Cromwell Road, Cromwell Road itself is higher than the station.

Contents 1 Services 2 Proposed Changes 3 References 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Services

There is currently an hourly service eastbound to Bristol Temple Meads and westbound to Avonmouth, with the latter extended to Severn Beach in the peaks and on Saturdays, a bus connection being necessary during the day on weekdays. There is currently no service on Sundays.

From Sunday 18 May 2008 an improved service will be offered on the line^[2]. Trains will start earlier in the morning and finish later in the evening, with three trains in every 2-hour cycle during the daytime. In addition to improving the frequency of services this will also increase turnaround time, so the timetable should be more reliable. This will have the unfortunate side-effect of trains not being at the same times past each hour.

Services to Severn Beach will be reduced overall, with only one train every two hours Mondays to Fridays, as opposed to the current service provided by a bus every hour connecting with every train. However, overall journey time is shortened by 8 minutes by removing the need to change at Avonmouth. The bus continues to run on Saturdays to provide one journey per hour to/from Severn Beach. For the first time in recent history, there will be a Sunday service, with hourly departures between 10am and 6pm from Bristol to Avonmouth, running until September only. St Andrew's Road and Severn Beach itself continue to have no Sunday service.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Stapleton Road		First Great Western Severn Beach Line		Redland

[edit] Proposed Changes

In March 2007 First Great Western, published details of the improvements they plan to undertake over the next three years^[3] , at Monpelier they are;

• CCTV
• Help and information points
• Public address system
• Redo Mural
• Garden or fence off hidden corner
• Major clean up

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• First Great Western
• List of all UK railway stations
• Public transport in Bristol

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Montpelier railway station from National Rail

v • d • e Railway stations served by Bristol area local services Taunton to Bristol and Cardiff Taunton • Bridgwater • Highbridge and Burnham • Weston-super-Mare • Weston Milton • Worle • Yatton • Nailsea and Backwell • Parson Street • Bedminster • Bristol Temple Meads • Lawrence Hill • Stapleton Road • Filton Abbey Wood • Bristol Parkway • Patchway • Pilning • Severn Tunnel Junction • Newport • Cardiff Central Westbury and Bristol to Cheltenham Westbury  • Trowbridge • Bradford-on-Avon • Avoncliff • Freshford • Bath Spa • Oldfield Park • Keynsham • Bristol Temple Meads • Lawrence Hill • Stapleton Road • Filton Abbey Wood • Bristol Parkway • Yate • Cam and Dursley • Gloucester • Cheltenham Spa Severn Beach Line Bristol Temple Meads  • Lawrence Hill  • Stapleton Road  • Montpelier  • Redland  • Clifton Down  • Sea Mills  • Shirehampton  • Avonmouth  • St Andrews Road  • Severn Beach

Coordinates: 51°28′06″N 2°35′19″W / 51.4684, -2.5887