Lawrence Hill railway station is on the Severn Beach Line and Cross Country Route, serving the inner-city districts of Easton and Lawrence Hill in Bristol, England. It is 1.0 mile (1.6 km) from Bristol Temple Meads. Its three letter station code is LWH. The station has two platforms, four running lines and minimal facilities. It is managed by Great Western Railway, the seventh company to be responsible for the station and the third franchise since privatisation in 1997. They provide all train services at the station, the standard service being two trains per hour along the Severn Beach Line and an hourly service between Bristol Temple Meads and Filton Abbey Wood.
Class 166 at Lawrence Hill with an Avonmouth service
A Cardiff-Portsmouth express passes through Lawrence Hill in 1962. The signal box is visible on the left.
The station in 1964, looking south towards Church Road. This is the western two platforms.
The Bristol and Gloucester Railway was a railway company opened in 1844 to run services between Bristol and Gloucester. It was built on the 7 ft Brunel gauge, but it was acquired in 1845 by the 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in standard gauge Midland Railway, which also acquired the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway at the same time.
Gloucester Eastgate station
A political cartoon emphasising the evils of the break of gauge at Gloucester
Down coal train south of Haresfield in 1962