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The Bristol Harbour Railway is a preserved railway in Bristol, England operated by Bristol Museums Galleries & Archives. It runs for about a mile along the south side of Bristol Harbour, starting at M Shed (the former Bristol Industrial Museum (51°26′54″N 2°35′49″W / 51.4483°N 2.5969°W / 51.4483; -2.5969 (Bristol Harbour Railway (Prince Street end)))), stopping at the SS Great Britain, and ending at B Bond Warehouse (home of the Create Centre), one of the large tobacco warehouses beside Cumberland Basin (51°26′48″N 2°37′17″W / 51.4466°N 2.6213°W / 51.4466; -2.6213 (Bristol Harbour Railway (Cumberland Basin end))).
The original Bristol Harbour Railway was a joint venture by the GWR and the Bristol and Exeter Railway, opened in 1872 between Temple Meads and the Floating Harbour. Its route included a tunnel under St Mary Redcliffe church and a steam-powered bascule bridge over the entrance locks at Bathurst Basin. In 1876 the railway was extended by 1/2 mile to Wapping Wharf. In 1906, new branches from the south via Ashton swing bridge were built to Canons Marsh on the north side of the Floating Harbour and to Wapping via a line alongside the New Cut. The Temple Meads connection was closed and the track lifted in 1964 (the bascule bridge engine survives in Bristol Museums). The Canons Marsh branch closed the following year. Canons Marsh goods shed is now the home of Explore At-Bristol, a hands-on science centre. The Western Fuel Company continued to use the branch from the Portishead line and Wapping marshalling yard for commercial coal traffic until 1987.
In 1978, the preserved railway was established as an element of Bristol Industrial Museum using locomotives built in Bristol and formerly used at Avonmouth Docks. At first, it connected the Museum with the s.s. Great Britain but when commercial rail traffic ceased the museum railway expanded to use the branch alongside the New Cut. When the Portishead Railway was relaid the connection at Ashton Junction was severed. The railway operates on selected weekends on standard gauge track for half a mile. The railway is currently in use as far as B Bond Warehouse (home to the Create Centre and Bristol Record Office), a mile from the museum.
On the south side of the harbour the railway crosses Spike Island, the narrow strip of land between the Harbour and the River Avon, and clings to the side of the river as far as the junction with the northern branch at the Cumberland Basin. Here the old railway turns and crosses the river, merging first with the Portishead Railway and then the Great Western main line. Ashton bridge is an iron swing bridge that was, before the construction of new main road nearby, a double-deck bridge carrying a road carriageway above the railway. The top deck has now been dismantled and one of the tracks lifted to make way for a footpath and cycleway, while the other track has become overgrown, rail traffic having ceased in the late 1990s. The track from the bridge to Ashton Gate station has now been lifted.
Bristol City Council, in partnership with other local councils in the area, are currently proposing that the route of the railway should be used for a bus rapid transit route to serve the south-west of the city. [1]
Bristol City Council have confirmed that the Harbour Railway will continue to operate a Sunday and bank holiday service after the construction of the proposed Ashton Vale to Temple Meads bus rapid transit route. [2]
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Severn Estuary |
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Royal Portbury Dock |
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Butterfly Junction |
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CREATE Centre |
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Old & New Junction Locks |
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To the Southwest |
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Parson Street |
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Albion Dockyard |
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Vauxhall Bridge |
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SS Great Britain |
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Cumberland Road Bridge |
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Malago Colliery |
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Canons Marsh |
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Princes Wharf |
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Western Fuel Concentration Co |
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Bedminster |
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Bathurst Basin |
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Redcliffe Tunnel |
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Redcliffe Goods |
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Pylle Hill Parcel Depot |
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A4 Bath Road (Redcliffe Viaduct) |
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A4044 Temple Way (Victoria Street Bridge) |
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Bristol Temple Meadsand Temple Meads Goods |
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Temple Meads Old Station |
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River Avon |
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Rolling stock[edit]
The railway has several small steam locomotives:
There is also a collection of wagons, some of which have been converted for passenger use while others are used for demonstration freight trains.
References[edit]
External links[edit]
Sources[edit]
- Old version of the museum's web page, now located at "Bristol's Industrial Museum". Bristol City Council: leisure and culture. Retrieved 2005-03-22.
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Operational railways
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Museums, galleries,
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- All Saints'
- Bristol Cathedral
- Bristol Community Church
- Buckingham Baptist Chapel
- Chapel of the Three Kings of Cologne
- Christ Church, Clifton Down
- Christ Church with St Ewen
- Church of Holy Trinity, Hotwells
- Church of Holy Trinity, Stapleton
- Church of the Holy Trinity with St Edmund
- Church of St John the Baptist, Bristol
- City Road Baptist Church
- Cotham Church
- Counterslip Baptist Church
- Clifton Cathedral
- Crofts End Church
- Holy Trinity Church, Kingswood
- Holy Trinity Church, Westbury on Trym
- New Room, Bristol
- Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Apostles
- St Mary Redcliffe
- Redland Chapel
- St. Augustine Church (Bristol)
- St Augustine the Less Church, Bristol
- St George's Church, Brandon Hill
- St James' Priory, Bristol
- St John the Baptist, Frenchay
- St Luke's Church, Brislington
- St Mark's Church, Bristol
- St Mary le Port Church, Bristol
- St Mary on the Quay
- St Mary's Church, Henbury
- St Matthews Church, Cotham
- St Michael on the Mount Without
- St Nicholas, Bristol
- St Peter and St Paul, Bristol
- St Peter, Bristol
- St Peters Church, Bishopsworth
- St Philip and Jacob, Bristol
- St Stephen's Church, Bristol
- St Thomas the Martyr, Bristol
- St Werburgh's Church, Bristol
- St. Paul's Church, Bristol
- Temple Church, Bristol
- Trinity Centre
- Whitefield's Tabernacle, Bristol
- Whitefield's Tabernacle, Kingswood
- Woodlands Christian Centre
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- Black Castle Public House
- Clifton Down railway station
- The Coronation Tap
- Hatchet Inn, Bristol
- 17 King Street, Bristol
- King William Ale House
- Llandoger Trow
- Mauretania Public House
- Nova Scotia, Bristol
- The Old Duke
- Old Post Office, Bristol
- Palace Hotel, Bristol
- Printers Devil, Bristol
- Pump House, Bristol
- Seven Stars Public House, Bristol
- Shakespeare Inn, Bristol
- Shakespeare Public House, Bristol
- Stag and Hounds Public House
- The Crown, Bristol
- Clifton Lido and The Victoria Public House
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