Chittening Platform railway station

Coordinates: 51°31′30″N 2°40′30″W / 51.525°N 2.675°W

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51°31′30″N 2°40′30″W / 51.525°N 2.675°W / 51.525; -2.675

Railways in the Bristol area

Legend

Cross Country Route

Thornbury branch line

Yate

South Wales Main Line

New Passage Pier

Westerleigh Junction

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South Wales Main Line

via Severn Tunnel

Pilning

Severn Beach

Coalpit Heath

Severn View Industrial Park

Winterbourne

Chittening Industrial Estate

Bristol Parkway

Patchway

Smoke Lane Industrial Estate

Ram Hill Colliery

Chittening Platform

Hallen Halt

Avonmouth Docks

Henbury

St Andrews Road

Charlton Halt

Avonmouth (BPR&P)

North Filton Platform

Avonmouth (Royal Edward)

Stoke Gifford depot

Avonmouth Docks

Westerleigh Goods Depot

Avonmouth

Avonmouth Light Railway

Filton Junction

Avonmouth Docks

Mangotsfield

(1845–1869)

Clifton Down

(1869–1966)

Warmley

Hotwells

Narroways Hill Junction

Stapleton Road sidings

Grey line represents

Stapleton Road

boundary of Bristol

Oldland Common

unitary authority area

Avon Valley Railway

Waste depot

St Mary Redcliffe tunnel

Avon Riverside

Bristol Temple Meads

Princes' Wharf

Kelston

Bristol Harbour Railway

St Philip's Marsh T&RSMD

SS Great Britain

East Depot

Bristol Docks (North)

Bedminster

Bristol Docks (South)

Parson Street

CREATE Centre

Mangotsfield to Bath line

South Liberty Lane Depot

Nightingale Valley Halt

Long Ashton

Ham Green Halt

Bristol–Exeter line

Portbury shipyard

Bristol & North Somerset Rly

Portbury Shipyard

Saltford

Portbury

Great Western Main Line

(1954–1964)

Portishead

Weston, Clevedon and

Portishead Light Railway

(1879–1954)

Portishead

Portishead Pier

Chittening Platform railway station was a station on the former Great Western Railway between Filton and Avonmouth.

History

The station was opened on 5 March 1917 to serve a large government munitions factory at Chittening. The factory project was abandoned when the United States entered the First World War, but the station remained open to serve employees at the Chittening Trading Estate until 1923.

It was reopened unadvertised for workers on 27 October 1941, and opened to the public fully on 31 May 1948. The station never served goods trains.^[1] It was closed on 23 November 1964, when passenger traffic ceased on the Avonmouth and Filton line.^[2] The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.

The line past the site remains open for goods traffic, and is now known as the Henbury Loop.

Future

Improved services on the Severn Beach Line are called for as part of the Greater Bristol Metro scheme, a rail transport plan which aims to enhance transport capacity in the Bristol area.^[3]^[4]^[5] It has been suggested that the Henbury Loop Line be reopened as part of the scheme, with the possibility of services running from Bristol Temple Meads to Bristol Parkway via Clifton Down and Henbury.^[6] The Metro scheme was given the go-ahead in July 2012 as part of the City Deal, whereby local councils would be given greater control over money by the government.^[7]

Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways are also campaigning to get Chittening reopened along with Henbury and North Filton.^[8]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
St Andrews Road		Great Western Railway Henbury Loop Line		Hallen Halt Line open, station closed

References

^ Avon County Planning Department (1983). Railways in Avon: A Short History of Their Development and Decline. County of Avon.
^ Maggs, C. (1981) Rail Centres: Bristol Ian Allan ISBN 0-7110-1153-2 p.22
^ White, James (13 March 2009). "Item 04: Greater Bristol Metro" (PDF). West of England Partnership. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
^ "Campaign for trains from Bristol Temple Meads every half hour". This is Bristol. Northcliffe Media. 17 January 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
^ "Transport Minister hears calls for better Bristol train service". This is Bristol. Northcliffe Media. 17 October 2009. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
^ "Our Case". Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
^ Ribbeck, Michael (6 July 2012). "£100 million Bristol Metro train network by 2016". The Post, Bristol. Northcliffe Media. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
^ "FoSBR Plan for Rail". Retrieved 8 February 2022.

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