Montpelier railway station
Montpelier railway station is on the Severn Beach Line and serves the district of Montpelier in Bristol, England. It is 2.85 miles (4.59 km) from Bristol Temple Meads. Its three letter station code is MTP. The station has a single platform, serving trains in both directions. As of 2015 it is managed by Great Western Railway, which is the third franchise to be responsible for the station since privatisation in 1997. They provide all train services at the station, mainly a train every 30 minutes in each direction.
Montpelier railway station
The platform at Montpelier, looking towards Stapleton Road and Bristol Temple Meads
A Class 166 at Montpelier with an Avonmouth service
Looking east along the platform. The disused northern platform can be seen on the left.
The Severn Beach line is a local railway line in Bristol and Gloucestershire, England, which runs from Bristol Temple Meads to Severn Beach, and used to extend to Pilning. The first sections of the line were opened in 1863 as part of the Bristol Port Railway and Pier; the section through Bristol was opened in 1875 as the Clifton Extension Railway.
First Great Western 150233 crosses the River Trym near Sea Mills on its way to Avonmouth.
Temple Meads to Severn Beach train in 1958 headed by a BR Standard tank steam locomotive
A railcar operating a Severn Beach line service at Lawrence Hill in the 1970s
British Rail Engineering Limited concept railbus LEV3 on an evaluation run at Stapleton Road in 1981