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Clifton Down railway station opened on 1 October 1874, when passenger services began, and was for a while the terminal station. It was the second station along the line from Narroways Hill Junction where the Extension Railway left the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway 's main line to Wales.
With no prospect of a proper dock being funded without a connection to the national rail network, the Clifton Extension Railway (CER) was approved. This was a joint venture by the BPRP, Great Western Railway and Midland Railway which ran from Sneyd Park Junction, south of Sea Mills , via Clifton Down , to join up with the national network at ...
The greatest engineering feature of the branch was a mile-long tunnel underneath Clifton Down. The section through the tunnel from Clifton Down station to Sneyd Park Junction, where it connected to the Bristol Port Railway, opened to goods traffic in 1877 and to passenger trains on 1 September 1885. [1]
National Rail: Operator(s) Great Western Railway: Depot(s) St Philip's Marsh T&RSMD: Rolling stock: Class 158 Express Sprinter Class 165 Turbo Class 166 Turbo: Ridership: 1.25 million (2016) [1] History; Opened: 1840 (Temple Meads to Bristol West Jn) 1863 (Bristol West Jn to Narroways Hill Jn) 1875 (Narroways Hill Jn to Clifton Down) 1877 ...
Clifton Bridge railway station, which served Hotwells in Bristol; Clifton Down railway station serving Clifton, Bristol; Clifton and Lowther railway station which served the village of Clifton on the Lancaster to Carlisle line, Cumbria; Clifton railway station (Greater Manchester) serving Clifton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Salford; Clifton ...
The Clifton Extension Railway was opened from Narroways Hill Junction to Clifton Down as a joint venture between the Great Western Railway and Midland Railway, to connect their main lines to the Bristol Port Railway and Pier in the Avon Gorge. Passenger services to Clifton Down began in 1874, and through services to Avonmouth started in 1885 ...
This was a joint venture by the BPRP, Great Western Railway and Midland Railway which ran from Sneyd Park Junction, south of Sea Mills, via Clifton Down, to join the national network at Narroways Hill Junction. [1]: 12 The link opened in 1877.
The station was opened on 1 October 1874 as Montpellier (two 'L's) by the Great Western and Midland Railways as part of the Clifton Extension Railway, designed to connect the port of Avonmouth to the national rail network. In February 1888 the station's name changed to Montpelier (one 'L').