Ashton Gate The station as it exists today. Location Place Ashton Gate Area Bristol Operations Post-grouping Great Western Railway History 15 September 1906 Station partly opens as Ashton Gate Platform 1 October 1910 Station fully opens 1917 Station closed 23 May 1926 Station reopens August 1928 Station renamed Ashton Gate 29 October 1962 Station renamed Ashton Gate Halt 7 September 1964 Station closed 29 September 1970 Station reopens by 1981 Station closed Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D-F G H-J K-L M-O P-R S T-V W-Z UK Railways Portal

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Coordinates: 51°26′30″N 2°37′32″W / 51.441598°N 2.625482°W / 51.441598; -2.625482 Ashton Gate station Shown within Bristol and the UK

Ashton Gate railway station was a railway station serving an area of Bristol, England, which included Ashton Gate football ground, the home ground of Bristol City F.C.. It was located on the Portishead Railway.

Contents 1 History 2 The site today 3 References 4 External links

[edit] History

Opened by the Great Western Railway, the station closed due to economies during the First World War. It then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board in 1964, then briefly reopened for traffic to the football ground until 1977, and temporarily re-opened in May 1984 to serve Mission England, a series of evangelical rallies by Billy Graham at the football ground.^[1]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Parson Street		Great Western Railway Portishead Railway		Clifton Bridge Line open, Station closed

[edit] The site today

The line through the former station still exists but in spite of attempts at passenger re-opening ^[2] carries only freight for the Royal Portbury Dock.

[edit] References

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 

[edit] External links

• Media related to Ashton Gate railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Pictures of the station [1]

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