St Andrews Road railway station

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St Andrews Road

Location

Place

Avonmouth

Local authority

Bristol

Operations

Station code

SAR

Managed by

First Great Western

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

4,969

2005/06 *

8,008

History

Key dates

Opened March 1917^[1]

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at St Andrews Road from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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St Andrews Road railway station is located near to St Andrews Road and serves a large industrial area near to Avonmouth. This station and all trains serving it are operated by First Great Western.

This station is 16 km (10 miles) west from Bristol Temple Meads on the Severn Beach Line. All trains serving it are operated and the station is managed by First Great Western. EWS (energy division) also operate coal trains to Didcot from the adjacent lines.

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

[edit] Service

The station is a request stop - if nobody requests that the train or bus stops then it will not do so. Currently, there is generally an hourly service eastbound to Bristol and northbound to Severn Beach with 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. This will increase turnaround time, so the timetable should be more reliable.

This will have the unfortunate side-effect of services from St Andrews Road being reduced overall, with only one train each way every two hours Mondays to Fridays, as opposed to the current service provided by a bus every hour connecting with every train. The bus continues to run on Saturdays and alternates with the train to provide an hourly service overall. There will still be no trains from St. Andrews Road station on Sundays, although they will run from Avonmouth towards Bristol until September.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Avonmouth		First Great Western Severn Beach Line		Severn Beach

[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 St Andrews Road they are;

CCTV
Help and information points
Public address system
Signage to bus stop

[edit] References

^ History of the Severn Beach Line
^ http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Documents/Custom/DC%20MAY%202008%20TIMETABLE/Bristol%20Temple%20Meads%20to%20Severn%20Beach.pdf New timetable from First Great Western
^ Severn Beach Line Development Plan (PDF). First Great Western (March 2007). Retrieved on 2007-12-12.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Train times and station information for St Andrews Road railway station from National Rail
A video of coal being loaded at St Andrews Road

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