Avoncliff railway station

Avoncliff
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Location
Place	Avoncliff
Local authority	Wiltshire
Coordinates
Grid reference	ST804600
Operations
Station code	AVF
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03	7,928
2004/05	8,428
2005/06	10,624
2006/07	13,888
2007/08	15,256
2008/09	15,774
2009/10	16,240
2010/11	19,650
2011/12	18,284
2012/13	16,404
2013/14	19,394
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
9 July 1906	Station opens as Avoncliff Halt
5 May 1969	Station renamed Avoncliff
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Avoncliff from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Avoncliff railway station serves the hamlet of Avoncliff in Wiltshire, England. It also serves the nearby villages of Westwood and Winsley, and Turleigh hamlet. It is situated next to the Kennet and Avon Canal and located almost adjacent to the Avoncliff Aqueduct so it is popular for walkers and cyclists who wish to travel along the canal path or the many picturesque walks around the station.

This station was a request stop, until July 2010. It now has trains scheduled to stop there, whether or not passengers want to board or alight. The station has two platforms, each long enough for ​1 ¹⁄₂ coaches, with a waiting shelter and original lamp-posts, and is served by Great Western Railway. Residents have voluntarily decorated the station with many pots of flowers and, to mark its 100-year anniversary on the 9 July 2006, decorated the station with bunting and dressed in Victorian clothing for the celebrations.

History

Opened by the Great Western Railway opened as Avoncliff Halt on 9 July 1906, it remained part of that company during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Western Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The suffix 'Halt' was dropped from 5 May 1969.

When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the privatisation of British Railways.

Services

A half-hourly peak and hourly off-peak service is currently provided northbound to Bath and Bristol and southbound to Bradford on Avon, Trowbridge, Westbury and then further to Weymouth and Southampton.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Freshford		Great Western Railway Bristol-/Portsmouth/Brighton		Bradford-on-Avon
Freshford		Great Western Railway Bristol-Weymouth		Bradford-on-Avon

Gallery

• Avoncliff railway station.JPG

  Preserved GWR seat and old station sign

• AvoncliffRwStnP1010087.JPG

  Entrance to station seen from Kennet and Avon Canal

References

• Station on navigable O.S. map