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Bristol’s first new railway station in almost 100 years opening soon
Despite the official opening date of Portway Park & Ride railway station not yet announced, Bristol24/7 has discovered that tickets are now on sale for services arriving into and leaving from our city’s first new station for almost a century.
When it is fully operational, there will be trains every 30 minutes towards Temple Meads in one direction, and Avonmouth and Severn Beach in the other.
The £4.2m project has been jointly funded by Bristol City Council, the West of England Combined Authority and the Department for Transport, with additional funding from Network Rail.
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When is Portway Park & Ride railway station opening?
The first passenger train due to call into Portway Park & Ride – which is located in Shirehampton – is the 10.46am from Avonmouth on Sunday, May 21.
It’s the only train that will be calling into Portway Park & Ride’s single platform on its first day being open to passengers.
That train then becomes the 10.48am to Temple Meads calling at Shirehampton, Sea Mills, Clifton Down, Redland, Montpelier Stapleton Road and Lawrence Hill before arriving at Temple Meads at 11.20am.
On Monday, May 22, trains are due to leave Portway Park & Ride for Temple Meads at 5.14pm, 10.26pm, 10.53pm and 11.21pm – the first, albeit brief, half-hourly services that will soon become standard.
It will be the same timetable on May 23 and May 24, before one 5.14pm service on May 25; and trains at 5.14pm, 10.26pm and 10.53pm on May 26.
On Saturday, May 27, the first train from Portway Park & Ride to Temple Meads leaves at 7.48am, with a busy timetable until the last departure at 9.14pm.
It will not be until later in the summer, however, at a date still to be confirmed, that a full service will start.
Portway Park & Ride station will have a fully accessible single platform with facilities including a ticket machine, smart ticket readers, live train departure screens and a help point – photo: Martin Booth
The new station in Shirehampton with a view of the Avonmouth Bridge is part of the MetroWest programme of works which include the reopening of both the Portishead and Henbury lines with new stations at Henbury, North Filton and Ashley Down.
Portway Park & Ride will be the first new railway station to be opened as part of MetroWest programme, and will become the first new station in Bristol since Parson Street was opened in 1927.
Signs around the station still say it was due to open in 2022 – photo: Martin Booth
Main photo: Martin Booth
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