Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway






Dates

21/12/2001Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway
Formally re-opened to Portbury for imported coal and other traffic.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Parson Street to Portishead







DB 66016, light engine on the Portishead Branch, heading for Portishead docks through the former Ashton Gate station on 9 February 2010.
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Peter Todd 09/02/2010
Freightliner 66560, passing Ashton Gate on the Portishead branch, heading for the mainline at Parsons Street on 9 February 2010
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Peter Todd 09/02/2010
Freightliner 70003 heading east from Portbury Docks on a damp morning on 4 August 2010, passing the abandoned platforms of Ashton Gate station on the ...
Peter Todd 04/08/2010
Freightliner 70004 passing Ashton Gate with a loaded coal train from Portbury import terminal, where it would have commenced its journey shortly after ...
Peter Todd 09/08/2010
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EWS 66016 heads west light engine towards Portbury import terminal on 9 February 2010. The south tower of Brunel's Clifton suspension bridge stands on ...
Peter Todd 09/02/2010
66075 running light engine westbound from Bristol to Portbury on 3 December 2009, passing the site of Clifton Bridge station, closed in September ...
Peter Todd 03/12/2009
Coal empties heading back to Portbury coal import terminal run west alongside the Avon on 9 February, photographed passing Rownham. ...
Andy Kirkham 09/02/2010
EWS 66175 heading light engine back towards Bristol along the Portbury branch on 19 June near the former Clifton Bridge station. ...
Peter Todd 19/06/2008
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Network Rail sign warning PW staff that the Avon Gorge is a SSSI and they must proceed only with proper authority. December 2009.
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Peter Todd 03/12/2009
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The Clifton Suspension Bridge, with the Portishead line in the background running alongside the River Avon. ...
Ewan Crawford //
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The Clifton Suspension Bridge, seen from the Paddle Steamer PS Bristol Queen in the summer of 1964. In the woods, on the right, is Clifton Bridge ...
John Thorn //1964
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Ham Green Halt was added to the Portishead Branch to serve the nearby isolation hospital. This view looking towards Pill. Note the 'pagoda' style ...
John Thorn /07/1960
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Some of us may remember a song by Adge Cutler : 'Pill, Pill, I love thee still'. Pill is a real place and also the local name for a tidal creek. ...
John Thorn //1960
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This new station in Portishead, photographed in the summer of 1960, had a life of only ten years, (1954-1964). It was built to replace the previous ...
John Thorn /07/1960
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West to North Curve