Bristol Temple Meads

CRS Code	BRI
Collected date	16/05/08

The centre of a week's exploration in the Bristol area, Temple Meads is really two stations. The first was Brunel's Great Western Railway terminus. This is no longer used by the operational railway but still stands to the side of the present station. The front of the old station:

Slightly mucky, but still readable, "Great Western Railway Company" in the stonework:

Looking through the entrance archway immediately to the west of the old station:

From the same point, looking at the northern side of the old trainshed:

The side of the old frontage:

The opposite side of the trainshed, with entrances to a cafe and to a museum:

Old tracks in the gap between the old trainshed and the ramp leading up to the current station:

A lot of the old trainshed is used as a car park. Inside the old station:

Looking west at the screen wall which separates the museum from the car park:

What looks very much like an old signalbox inside the old station:

The vehicular exit from the old station to the approach area to the new station:

The eastern end of the old station:

Looking back from the side of the new station towards the old station:

At the eastern end is this archway which leads from the old station to the new:

From here we enter the "new" (actually dating from the 1870s) building, which is more grand, even inside:

Looking out of the entrance to the station:

Outside, the front of the station is spectacular:

A long view of the front of the station. The old trainshed is to the left, and the current one to the right:

The frontage has glazed canopies. The canopy on the south-east "wing" of the station:

A side view of the station front, showing the entrance arches under the canopy:

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