Pilning - Severn Tunnel Jcn Car Shuttle

[Lucan]

Can anyone point to any photos of this service in use? The best I can find is this, that happens to show part of a car flat on a siding in the background :-
http://bristol-rail.co.uk/wiki/File:Pilning3.jpg

 

[contrex]

http://www.geograph.org.uk/more.php?id=2555005

http://rcts.zenfolio.com/rolling-stock/br/hA87EB8F1#ha87eb8f1

https://www.mediastorehouse.com/pilning-high-level-station-1958/print/14741152.html

 

[Lucan]

Thanks for that. Pilning today is a very "lonely" station, and I understand it has recently lost its footbridge to make way for the electrification gantries. Someone is determined to close Pilning I guess. You would have thought that the footbridge could have been raised for less than the cost of one overhead gantry (I could have done it, and I am a structural engineer) but no doubt any alteration would have had to accomodate wheelchairs etc etc, so no-one gets a footbridge.

 

[jimm]

And no one used Pilning station - even when it had a footbridge. It has had a skeleton service for a very long time, not just recently, is in the fields not that close to the village, and Severn Beach is not much further away if someone wants a train into Bristol.