Oldland Common railway station

Oldland Common is a railway station on the Avon Valley Railway. The station is on the same site as a previous station which was on the-then LMS Bath branch from Mangotsfield. Then, as now, paths led down to the platforms from North Street. However, until 1966 there were two platforms, one for each direction of travel.

Oldland Common
Location
Place	Oldland Common
Area	South Gloucestershire
Coordinates	51.443447°N 2.467646°W / 51.443447; -2.467646
Grid reference	ST676717
Operations
Owned by	London, Midland and Scottish Railway London Midland Region of British Railways Avon Valley Railway
Platforms	1
History
2 December 1935	Opened (Oldland Common)
7 December 1964	Renamed (Oldland Common Halt)
7 March 1966	Closed
6 March 1991	Reopened as heritage station
Stations on heritage railways in the United Kingdom
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Railways in the Bristol area
Cross Country Route Thornbury branch line Yate South Wales Main Line New Passage Pier Westerleigh Junction New Passage Halt Cross Hands Halt South Wales Main Line 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 Stoke Gifford depot Avonmouth (Royal Edward) Westerleigh Goods Depot Avonmouth Docks Avonmouth Filton Junction Avonmouth Light Railway Filton Avonmouth Docks Filton Abbey Wood Shirehampton Horfield Sea Mills Ashley Hill Clifton Down Tunnel Mangotsfield (1845–1869) Clifton Down Mangotsfield (1869–1966) Redland Staple Hill Montpelier Fishponds Hotwells Halt Warmley Hotwells Narroways Hill Junction Stapleton Road sidings Grey line represents Stapleton Road boundary of Bristol Oldland Common unitary authority area Avon Valley Railway Lawrence Hill Waste depot Bitton Bristol St Philip's Barton Hill Depot St Mary Redcliffe tunnel Avon Riverside Bristol Temple Meads 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 branch line South Liberty Lane Depot Ashton Gate St Anne's Park Clifton Bridge Brislington Nightingale Valley Halt Long Ashton Ham Green Halt Bristol–Exeter line Pill Whitchurch Halt Portbury shipyard Keynsham Royal Portbury Dock 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

Avon Valley Railway
Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line to Warmley Oldland Common Bitton River Avon Avon Riverside River Avon Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line to Kelston

Earlier station

Oldland Common's first station opened on 2 December 1935 on the LMS branch line that had been originally opened by the Midland Railway through this site in 1869. The station was intended to serve the growing suburban development in the area. It had platforms built of railway sleepers, and a small ticket office on the footpath that led down from the top of the cutting in which it was sited. In its last years before closure with the line on 7 March 1966 it was designated as an unstaffed halt.

Present station

Opened by the Avon Valley Railway on 6 March 1991. Passengers are invited to leave the train to watch the engine run round its train.

The station lies on the Bristol and Bath Railway Path.

Services

Preceding station	Heritage railways			Following station
Terminus		Avon Valley Railway		Bitton
	Disused railways
Warmley Line and station closed		Midland Railway Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line		Bitton Line and station open

External links

• Avon Valley Railway Website
• Gloucestershire Railway Stations, by Mike Oakley, Dovecote Press, 2003