Recent content by Pilning

Very interesting pictures, thank you. That's a lot if vegetation removed, a few weeks ago it would have been difficult to see that there was a railway underneath, so a huge amount of work has been undertaken- next developments awaited with interest!

Great video, exciting stuff!

Very good. The point is however that travel by road to Bristol Parkway during the peak hours from somewhere like Thornbury can take 30-40 minutes and it costs £7.60 or so to park, which effectively rules the route out as an option to commute into Bristol from that starting point, whereas...

Pilning does seem to be a candidate for a 'parkway' station, granted that road access would need some attention, but otherwise all of the ingredients seem to be there. Of course, there is little obvious traffic in the immediate local area at present but within 10/15 minutes drive the potential...

Presumably, Corbyn is not aware that the railway is already nationalised. So, is he proposing to nationalise the train operators as well? In order to keep an even playing field, should he not also be proposing to nationalise airlines that fly internal UK routes and road hauliers that use state...

Unfortunately, the new Metro Mayor is unlikely to be interested, since most of the line falls within North Somerset which has decided to not be part of the West of England Combined Authority area, highlighting one of the issues in getting a joined up transportation policy for Greater Bristol...

Sorry, fat finger, obviously meant one hundred years later.

According to North Somerset Council, Network Rail were commissioned in 2009 to undertake GRIP stages 1 - 3, at which time Network Rail estimated the project cost at £38.9 million...with a 17 minute journey time from Portishead to Bristol TM. In 1906, the timetable shows a journey time of just...

The latest news regarding the delayed Portishead reopening is a big setback for the residents of the fastest growing town in the south west who currently struggle to work in Bristol by car. As a non-railway person, it's so very hard to understand how it can be so difficult and expensive to...

I recently made a pleasant enough journey from Manchester to Bristol Parkway, booked via Trainsplit.com which saved me about 35% of the advertises Cross Country fare. As a result the journey was split into four parts, so the ticket machine at MAN kindly printed me four tickets, four seat...

Although lacking in detail, the Public Accounts Committee report on the GWML electrification does highlight the fact that this project is a total disaster thanks to the utter incompetence of Network Rail. Some of the snippets of information, such as not using appropriate planning powers, beggar...