Bristol Parkway railway station

Bristol Parkway
Bristol Parkway
	A view of Bristol Parkway station from the west.
Location
Place	Stoke Gifford
Local authority	South Gloucestershire
Grid reference	ST624795
Operations
Station code	BPW
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Platforms in use	4
	Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
History
Original company	Western Region of British Railways
1 May 1972	Station opened
1 July 2001	Refurbishment completed
9 May 2007	Third platform opened
13 April 2018	Fourth platform opened
	National Rail - UK railway stations
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

Bristol Parkway railway station is a train station in Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, England

Services

The station has trains by First Great Western to Paddington, Cardiff, Weston-super-Mare, Swindon, Bristol Temple Meads and a limited services to Chippenham. It also has trains by CrossCountry to Temple Meads, Manchester Picadilly, with longer services to and from South West England. There are also trains to Plymouth and Edinburgh, as well as trains to and from Glasgow Central or Aberdeen in the north and Penzance in the south.^[1]

Plans

Parkway had a new third platform (Platform 4) put in, in 2007, to give a new platform for trains going to London and Birmingham and to make trains better between London and south Wales.^[2] A new fourth platform was opened in April 2018.

Bristol Parkway Railway Station Media

Bristol Parkway is served by intercity services operated by CrossCountry and Great Western Railway. Here, a northbound CrossCountry service (right) passes a westbound Great Western Railway service.
A Great Western Railway service from Swansea to London.
Local stopping services operated by Great Western Railway serve the station as well. Here a Class 158 awaits its next duties.
Steam locomotive Pendennis Castle at Bristol Parkway in 1977.
A Class 33
```
locomotive hauls a freight train through Bristol Parkway in 1980. The walls behind the platforms have been added by this time.
```
The current station building was built in 2000.
A westbound First Great Western HST set at Bristol Parkway in 2006. The site of what would become platform 4 can be seen, as can the platforms for the Royal Mail depot.