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Bristol Temple Meads

Introduction

Bristol Temple Prairie Station is a British railway station located in Bristol, Bristol's oldest and largest railway station. This station is an important church hub in Bristol. The train station opened on August 31, 1840. The Bristol Temple Prairie Station is one of 19 railway stations directly managed by Network Rail, and the number of passengers at the station has continued to increase in recent years.

Platform

Some train services using this service will call at Bristol Mead Temple on the way to other destinations as it is not the terminal.

Therefore, from the perspective of the traveler, the main function of the station is the subway below the railway line, which connects most of the stations with the main station building. The main building accommodates all entrances/exports, ticket counters and most food/beverage shops.

The passage is made up of stairs and elevators, and the elevator in the main building is near the main entrance.

When you arrive at the 6, 8, 10, and 12 stations by train, you will have to go through the stairs to find the elevator. Stations 1-4 are free to enter and exit between trains. Station 3 is next to the ticket office, and this is the departure point for most of the cross-country trains to Birmingham and the North. Many Great Western Railway trains to London also Departure from platform 3.

When leaving the train departing from the 5-12 platform, please note that these stations are separate. However, they are not divided into "a" and "b" parts, but are assigned different numbers on both ends. Therefore, two different trains can occupy both ends of the platform at the same time, but the signs in the passage below the train will indicate the correct direction, especially if you are walking the stairs.

The channel runs below the middle of the station, so the left staircase leads to stations 5, 7, 9 and 11, while the right staircase leads to 6, 8, 10 and 12. Each specific platform also has its own departure indicator, so it is worth checking these indicators before getting on the bus.

Going to the city center

The station is within a certain distance from the city center and its related attractions, which is an unmaskable fact. The station is 12 – 25 minutes walk from the city centre.

If you want to walk downtown, take the stairs away from the main exit and turn right when you reach the main road. Then walk along the roundabout and walk along Victoria Street.

Bristol does not have any type of tram or subway, so the main public transport option is to take the bus – line 8, line 9 and line 72 stop at the front yard of the station and connect the Temple Meads station to the city. center. You can also reach the charming Clifton Village on Highways 8 and 9. If you want to visit the wonderful suspension bridge, get off at that stop.

However, many of Bristol's best attractions, including SS Great Britain, are concentrated around its former dock, which is a short distance from Bristol Mead Temple. But it is connected to Bristol Station by the Bristol Ferry Company, which has a pier called Temple Meads and is a 5-minute walk from the station.

To get to the destination, you first need to exit from the side exit of the station, which enters the older part of the station and the train no longer uses the exit. At the top right will be a sidewalk that passes through the parking lot and then crosses a short bridge.

Bristol ( ) is a city and county in South West England with a population of 463,400. The wider district has the 10th-largest population in England. The urban area population of 724,000 is the 8th-largest in the UK. The city borders North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with the cities of Bath and Gloucester to the south-east and north-east, respectively. South Wales lies across the Severn estuary. Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon, and around the beginning of the 11th century, the settlement was known as Brycgstow (Old English "the place at the bridge"). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373 when it became a county of itself. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities after London in tax receipts. Bristol was surpassed by the rapid rise of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the Industrial Revolution. Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European since the Vikings to land on mainland North America. In 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant, was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. At the height of the Bristol slave trade, from 1700 to 1807, more than 2,000 slave ships carried an estimated 500,000 people from Africa to slavery in the Americas. The Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock. Bristol's modern economy is built on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries, and the city-centre docks have been redeveloped as centres of heritage and culture. The city has the largest circulating community currency in the UK—the Bristol pound, which is pegged to the Pound sterling. The city has two universities, the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England, and a variety of artistic and sporting organisations and venues including the Royal West of England Academy, the Arnolfini, Spike Island, Ashton Gate and the Memorial Stadium. It is connected to London and other major UK cities by road and rail, and to the world by sea and air: road, by the M5 and M4 (which connect to the city centre by the Portway and M32); rail, via Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway mainline rail stations; and Bristol Airport. One of the UK's most popular tourist destinations, Bristol was selected in 2009 as one of the world's top ten cities by international travel publishers Dorling Kindersley in their Eyewitness series of travel guides. The Sunday Times named it as the best city in Britain in which to live in 2014 and 2017, and Bristol also won the EU's European Green Capital Award in 2015.