Yate is a small station on the line between Bristol Temple Meads and Gloucester. It has two platforms: Platform 1 for northbound services:
Platform 2 is for southbound services:
The platforms are on opposite sides of the A432 road bridge, seen here from the north:
And here from the south:
Adjacent to Platform 2 is a car park:
North of that platform is a disused and largely overgrown siding, its buffers just visible amid the undergrowth:
Opposite Platform 1, there's a small building, possibly a goods shed of some sort:
Opposite Platform 2 is Yate Middle Junction, for the freight-only branch to Tytherington stone terminal:
The station was closed in 1965, and only re-opened in 1989 by the chairman of a council that no longer exists:
The view north from the end of Platform 2:
The view south from the end of Platform 1:
The view south from the bridge:
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