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Nailsea and Backwell railway station
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| Nailsea and Backwell | |||
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| Location | |||
| Place | Backwell | ||
| Local authority | North Somerset | ||
| Operations | |||
| Station code | NLS | ||
| Managed by | First Great Western | ||
| Platforms in use | 2 | ||
| Live departures and station information from National Rail | |||
| Annual Passenger Usage | |||
| 2004/05 * | 0.238 million | ||
| 2005/06 * | 0.268 million | ||
| History | |||
| 1841 | Opened | ||
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |||
| * Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Nailsea and Backwell from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. | |||
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Nailsea and Backwell railway station is a station on the Bristol to Taunton Line. It is located in the village of Backwell and close to the town of Nailsea in North Somerset, England. The station is 8 miles (13 km) west of Bristol Temple Meads railway station.
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The station was opened by the Bristol and Exeter Railway on 14 June 1841 as Nailsea[1] and was the first station after leaving Bristol until Bedminster opened in 1871. When it was built it was surrounded by fields and served these rural communities, but both Nailsea and Backwell have expanded to accommodate commuters for Bristol and further afield since the 1970s. The main station buildings were provided on the Nailsea side of the station; Backwell has now spread right up to the railway line while the edge of Nailsea is still a little way distant to the north. Because of this, the station was renamed Nailsea and Backwell on 1 May 1905. It reverted to plain Nailsea in 1974 but has been has since become 'Nailsea & Backwell' once again.[2]
Goods sidings were placed on the north side of the station, immediately west of the platforms[3]. A connection from these ran to the Nailsea Colliery, a long-closed outlying mine of the Somerset coalfield. Goods traffic ceased entirely from 1 June 1964.
The station sits atop a bridge that spans the main road between Nailsea and Backwell. There is a car park on the Nailsea side of the station, and bus services from Nailsea to Backwell and Flax Bourton stop on the main road next to the car park.
Access to the two platforms is by steps from the road on either side; there is also a ramp leading up to the platform for trains towards Bristol. A small ticket kiosk on this platform is no longer manned, instead a ticket machine was installed on each platform in 2007. There are waiting shelters on both platforms and even a footbridge between them, although few people use this as it is as easier to descend to road level and pass beneath the line. There are "next train" monitors and an automated public address system to announce the trains.
The station is managed and all trains are operated by First Great Western. The basic train service comprises two trains in each direction each hour. One train is the Bristol Parkway to Weston-super-Mare service that calls at all stations; the second is the faster Cardiff Central to Taunton service which runs non-stop between Bristol Temple Meads and Nailsea & Backwell. A similar stopping pattern is used by the peak period services to and from London Paddington. All trains call at Yatton, the next station westwards.
The journey time to Bristol Temple Meads is 11 minutes, while to London takes about two hours. The High Speed Trains used on the London services are longer than the station, and so only the front carriages stop on the platform.
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Yatton | First Great Western Cardiff Central - Taunton |
Bristol Temple Meads or Parson Street |
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| Yatton | First Great Western Weston-Super-Mare - Bristol Parkway |
Parson Street | ||
- ^ Oakley, Mike (2006). Somerset Railway Stations. Bristol: Redcliffe Press. ISBN 1-90453-754-5.
- ^ The Bristol Railway Archive
- ^ Cooke, RA (1979). Track Layout Diagrams of the GWR and BR WR, Section 16: West Somerset. Harwell: RA Cooke.
- Train times and station information for Nailsea and Backwell railway station from National Rail
- Street map and aerial photo of Nailsea and Backwell railway station from Multimap.com
- Nailsea and Backwell Railway Station
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| 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 |
| Wetbury 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 |