Station Road boulder marking the original location of Patchway railway station
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Station Road boulder marking the original location of Patchway railway station by Jaggery as part of the Geograph project.
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Station Road boulder marking the original location of Patchway railway station
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 13 May 2015
An information board on the boulder records that the railway came to Patchway in 1863 as a single track line as far as Pilning. Patchway Station was just here. There was a weighbridge by the station to check that wagons were not overladen. The tall houses in Station Road were built for railway officials such as the station master. After the Severn Tunnel opened in 1886, so many trains brought coal from South Wales that a second track had to be built. The new track was at a different level http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4474548 so the station had to be moved further south to its present site, about 750 metres away (and further away from Patchway), where the lines are at the same level.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.531934
Longitude
-2.567232