Disused railway lines and closed stations in Bristol

17 miles of disused railway
11 closed stations
14 stations open today
8 named lost lines

Bristol has 17 miles of disused railway and 11 closed stations, against 14 stations still open today. That is 0.8 closed for every station still served. The longest lost line is the Bristol & Bath Railway Path, with 3.3 miles of its route inside Bristol.

See Bristol’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 17 miles of lost railway in Bristol break down as 9.8 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 5.4 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 1.6 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Bristol

8 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Bristol; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Bristol & Bath Railway Path	3.3
Bristol and Gloucester Line	3.2
Frome and North Somerset Line	2.7
Kingswood Branch	1.6
Avonside Branch	0.9
Bristol Wapping Wharf Branch	0.6
Bristol St Philips Branch	0.4
Portishead West Loop	0.4

Closed railway stations in Bristol

All 11 closed and former stations in Bristol, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Bristol

14 stations in Bristol still have a train service. The busiest are Bristol Temple Meads (10.9 million a year), Clifton Down (817,690 a year), Lawrence Hill (339,856 a year), Stapleton Road (305,052 a year) and Montpelier (252,028 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Monmouthshire, Somerset and Gloucestershire.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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