Trains to Bedminster - Station Details and further Information on Bedminster Train Services
Bedminster train station is on the Bristol to Taunton Line and serves the suburb of Bedminster in Bristol, England. It also serves the area of Windmill Hill.
This station and all trains serving it are operated by First Great Western. The basic pattern of trains is an hourly train calling at all stations between Bristol Parkway and Weston-super-Mare. There are also peak hour services from Cardiff to Taunton. There is a two-hourly service (approximately) each way on Sundays.
The station is unstaffed but despite this is decorated by murals throughout the entrance area and subway and has an automated customer information system and a payphone. It consists of two island platforms. That on the south side only uses one side for passenger trains; this is Platform 1 and is only used for trains towards Weston-super-Mare. The platform on the north side is generally used for trains towards Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway. Most use Platform 2 which is alongside the main line, but trains running on the Relief line use the opposite side, Platform 3.
With the Bristol Area Resignalling Scheme in the 1970s the local signal box was removed, the Down Relief converted to a Down Carriage Line and the Up Main signalled for reversible running between Bedminster and Temple Meads. This means that down trains can leave Temple Meads "wrong line" and is often used to allow late running fast trains to overtake stopping trains at Bedminster, which means that passengers waiting on Platform 1 for trains towards Weston-super-Mare sometimes have to hurry through the subway when their train appears on the "wrong" platform, Platform 2! |