Bedminster

From Bristol Railway Archive

To Bristol: Windmill Close
To the Southwest: Windmill Hill

History

Opened on 27th May 1884. The station was rebuilt in the 1930s when the line through the station was quadrupled and reopened for business on 30th April 1932. Closed to goods on 1st June 1964. Became unstaffed in September 1968.

Track Plans

A track plan of Bedminster and surrounding area from 1988.

1930s

An official GWR photo from the 1930s showing the then newly rebuilt station.

1989

Large Logo 47814 opens up the throttle as it powered south in 1989.

The sun was setting as a HST slowed on the approach to Temple Meads.

A local DMU headed for Weston Super Mare. Despite stopping at local stations en route, Bedminster was not one of them.

2003

2.12.03

The station entrance is decorated with a mural.	The underpass into the station is also brightly painted and, surprisingly, untouched by vandals.	This way to platform 1.	Modern platform shelters on platform 1.
The shelter on the up platform is of a much smaller design. Just visible to the right of the shelter is the top of the Clifton Suspension Bridge.	The down slow was out of use.	At one time Bedminster station was accessible from both ends. These bricked up stairways led down to the bridge at Windmill Close. The red warehouse in the distance has been built on the site of the old goods shed at Pylle Hill.	A Voyager heads south working wrong line.
The Voyager leaves the station and crosses the bridge at Windmill Hill.	The view south from platforms 2 & 3. This is a similar view to the 1989 one above.	This sneaked up on me while I was on the phone. 37605 and 37610 head north with a nuclear flask train.