Parson Street

<googlemap lat="51.433197" lon="-2.608008"> 51.433317, -2.607837, Parson Street </googlemap>

To the Southwest: Bedminster Down Road
To Wales, the North or Bath: Malago Vale Carriage Sidings

History

Opened on the 29th August 1927 as Parson Street Halt. The term 'Halt' was dropped in November 1933 when the line through the station was quadrupled.

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  The view from Parson Street roadbridge back towards the footbridge at Malago Vale. The new-build houses on the site of the old carriage sidings are protected from noise from the railway by a bloody big wall.
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  A general view along Parson Street Station. I'm stood where the station building once was. Look how the platform surface changes colour at the far end, signifying the length of train that calls here.
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  Standing at the end of the platforms and looking under the roadbridge.
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  The view from the Down platform with 150261 disappearing under Bartletts Bridge.
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  This electrical cabinet is underneath the stairway on the Up platform.
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  The footbridge has seen better times. Like a lot of the bridges in Bristol it once had a roof over the staircases.
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  This signal protects the junction between the loop and the mainline.
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  Looking along the Up slow/freight line. This line leads to the Portishead Branch.
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  And looking along the scar of the Down Slow.
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  This electrical cabinet stands in the trackbed of the Down Slow.
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  A view of one of the platform shelters.
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  The other platform shelter is a different (older) design.
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  The platform ends are fenced off part way along. I decided to risk trespassing because I wanted to archive the bridge and my digital zoom just ain't good enough to do it from this distance.
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  A view of the bridge that carries Bedminster Down Road across the line. On the right is an abutment from another bridge that used to cross here. At that time everything on the left of this picture was just fields.
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  A close up of the abutment.
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  A view back along the platforms, looking towards Bristol.
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  The view back along the station from the Down platform.