Yate railway station
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Yate railway station serves the town of Yate
in South Gloucestershire
, in south west England
. The station is located on the main Bristol to Birmingham line between Bristol Parkway and Cam & Dursley
, and is operated by First Great Western
.
The station is staffed on weekday mornings. It has two platforms, separated by the A432 road
bridge. An automated ticket machine was installed in mid-2007, but stopped functioning due to vandalism and is reported to be "unlikely to be replaced in the foreseeable future".
.
In the Strategic Rail Authority
’s 2007/08 financial year, Yate was ranked as the 1104th most-used station in the UK.
Yate
Yate is a town in South Gloucestershire, England, at the southwest extremity of the Cotswold Hills, 12 miles northeast of the city of Bristol. At the 2001 census the population was 21,789. The town of Chipping Sodbury is continuous with Yate to the east...
in South Gloucestershire
South Gloucestershire
South Gloucestershire is a unitary district in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, in South West England.-History:The district was created in 1996, when the county of Avon was abolished, by the merger of former area of the districts of Kingswood and Northavon...
, in south west England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. The station is located on the main Bristol to Birmingham line between Bristol Parkway and Cam & Dursley
Cam and Dursley railway station
Cam and Dursley railway station is a railway station serving the towns of Cam and Dursley in Gloucestershire. It is located on the main Bristol-Birmingham line, between Yate and Gloucester, at a site close to where Coaley Junction railway station was situated from 1856 to 1965.-The new...
, and is operated by First Great Western
First Great Western
First Great Western is the operating name of First Greater Western Ltd, a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that serves Greater London, the South East, South West and West Midlands regions of England, and South Wales....
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The station is staffed on weekday mornings. It has two platforms, separated by the A432 road
A432 road
The A432 is a road running from Bristol to Old Sodbury. It starts near Lawrence Hill in Bristol and passes through Eastville, Fishponds, Downend, Coalpit Heath, Yate and Chipping Sodbury before terminating at a junction with the A46 just to the east of Old Sodbury...
bridge. An automated ticket machine was installed in mid-2007, but stopped functioning due to vandalism and is reported to be "unlikely to be replaced in the foreseeable future".
History
The Yate station first opened on 8 July 1844 and closed on 4 January 1965. It was reopened on 11 May 1989. It is the start of the Thornbury Branchline, however the passenger stations on this branch have long since closed, and the line only remains to serve Tytherington QuarryTytherington Quarry
Tytherington Quarry is a 0.9 hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest near the village of Tytherington, South Gloucestershire, notified in 1989.-Source:*...
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In the Strategic Rail Authority
Strategic Rail Authority
In existence from 2001 to 2006, the Strategic Rail Authority was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom set up under the Transport Act 2000 to provide strategic direction for the railway industry....
’s 2007/08 financial year, Yate was ranked as the 1104th most-used station in the UK.