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Oldfield Park railway station is a suburban railway station in the city of Bath in BANES, England. It serves the mainly residential areas around Moorland Road, in southern Bath.
It is located on the London-Bristol and Bristol-Southampton trunk routes and is 16 km (10 miles) east of Bristol Temple Meads. The station opened on 18 February 1929, though the line through the site had opened in 1840. To some extent it replaced an earlier station at Twerton, three-quarters of a mile to the west, which had closed, ostensibly temporarily, in the First World War and which had been badly affected by competing bus and tram services. The Twerton station never reopened.
Passenger services are operated by First Great Western. The station has a ticket office on the westbound platform which is manned only during the morning peak. There is also a ticket machine on the westbound platform, and the station is part of the Penalty Fares area.
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There is generally an hourly service to Gloucester via Bristol Temple Meads. In the other direction, trains run to a wide range of destinations. These include Westbury, Salisbury, Southampton and Portsmouth Harbour as well as Castle Cary and stations to Weymouth; there is even one service a day to Brighton. On Sundays, the service is more infrequent.
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Coordinates: 51°22′45″N 2°22′51″W / 51.3792, -2.3807
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