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Oldland Common Halt
Station on heritage railway
General information
Location	Oldland Common, South Gloucestershire England
Coordinates	51°26′36″N 2°28′04″W / 51.443447°N 2.467646°W / 51.443447; -2.467646
Grid reference	ST676717
Owned by	London, Midland and Scottish Railway London Midland Region of British Railways Western Region of British Railways Avon Valley Railway
Platforms	1
Key dates
2 December 1935	Opened (Oldland Common)
7 December 1964	Renamed (Oldland Common Halt)
7 March 1966	Closed
6 March 1991	Line reopened with run around loop
6 December 1997	Platform reopened on the site

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Cross Country Route Thornbury branch line Yate South Wales Main Line New Passage Pier Westerleigh Junction New Passage Halt Cross Hands Halt South Wales Main Line via Severn Tunnel Pilning Severn Beach Coalpit Heath Severn View Industrial Park Winterbourne Chittening Industrial Estate Bristol Parkway Patchway Smoke Lane Industrial Estate Ram Hill Colliery Chittening Platform Hallen Halt Avonmouth Docks Henbury St Andrews Road Charlton Halt Avonmouth (BPR&P) North Filton Platform Avonmouth (Royal Edward) Stoke Gifford depot Avonmouth Docks Westerleigh Goods Depot Avonmouth Avonmouth Light Railway Filton Junction Avonmouth Docks Filton Portway Park & Ride Filton Abbey Wood Shirehampton Horfield Ashley Down Sea Mills Ashley Hill Clifton Down Tunnel Mangotsfield (1845–1869) Clifton Down Mangotsfield (1869–1966) Redland Staple Hill Montpelier Fishponds Hotwells Halt Warmley Hotwells Narroways Hill Junction Stapleton Road sidings Grey line represents Stapleton Road boundary of Bristol Oldland Common unitary authority area Avon Valley Railway Lawrence Hill Waste depot Bitton Bristol St Philip's Barton Hill Depot St Mary Redcliffe tunnel Avon Riverside Bristol Temple Meads Bristol Temple Meads Princes' Wharf Kelston Bristol Harbour Railway St Philip's Marsh T&RSMD SS Great Britain East Depot Bristol Docks (North) Bedminster Bristol Docks (South) Parson Street CREATE Centre Mangotsfield to Bath line South Liberty Lane Depot Ashton Gate St Anne's Park Clifton Bridge Brislington Nightingale Valley Halt Long Ashton Ham Green Halt Bristol–Exeter line Pill Whitchurch Halt Portbury shipyard Keynsham Royal Portbury Dock Bristol & North Somerset Rly Portbury Shipyard Saltford Portbury Great Western Main Line (1954–1964) Portishead Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Light Railway (1879–1954) Portishead Portishead Pier

v t e Avon Valley Railway
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Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line to Warmley Oldland Common Halt Bitton River Avon Avon Riverside River Avon Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line to Kelston

Oldland Common Halt is a railway station on the Avon Valley Railway. The station is on the same site as a previous station which was on the-then LMS Bath branch from Mangotsfield. Then, paths led down to the platforms from North Street, with one now providing access to the Bristol & Bath Railway Path. However, until 1966 there were two platforms, one for each direction of travel.

Original station

Oldland Common's first station opened on 2 December 1935 on the LMS branch line that had been originally opened by the Midland Railway through this site in 1869. The station was intended to serve the growing suburban development in the area. It had platforms built of railway sleepers, and a small ticket office on the footpath that led down from the top of the cutting in which it was sited. In its last years before closure with the line on 7 March 1966, it was designated as an unstaffed halt. Due to its simple construction, it was quickly demolished and swept away after closure.

Present station

The line to the site of Oldland Common was reopened by the Avon Valley Railway on 6 March 1991. A new platform was constructed and opened on 6 December 1997. Passengers are invited to leave the train to watch the engine run round its train.

In 2022, the charitable trust launched a project dubbed the ‘Oldland Common Project’, pioneered by young volunteers within the railway. This was to see the station returned to 1960s when BR Western Region controlled the line, with a chocolate and cream colour scheme. The project saw a successful crowdfunder raise £2,500 towards restoration and repainting of the lamps into their new Western guise, installation of a replica closure poster, fixing of new totem railway and construction of a replica running in board. The project is currently ongoing.

The station lies adjacent to the Bristol and Bath Railway Path.

Services

Preceding station	Heritage railways			Following station
Terminus		Avon Valley Railway		Bitton
	Disused railways
Warmley Line and station closed		Midland Railway Mangotsfield and Bath Branch Line		Bitton Line and station open

References

1. Quick, M. E. (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 327. OCLC 931112387.
2. Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 177. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.

External links

• Avon Valley Railway Heritage Trust - Oldland Common station
• Avon Valley Railway Website
• Gloucestershire Railway Stations, by Mike Oakley, Dovecote Press, 2003

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