Isambard Kingdom Brunel Buildings and Structures - Bath Spa Railway Station, Bristol Temple Meads Railway Station, Brunel Manor, Culham Railway Station (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Bath Spa railway station, Bristol Temple Meads railway station, Brunel Manor, Culham railway station, Liskeard railway station, London Paddington station, Malmaison Hotel, Reading, Museum of the Great Western Railway, Reading railway station, Renkioi Hospital, St Germans railway station, Swindon Works. Excerpt: Bristol Temple Meads railway station is the oldest and largest railway station in Bristol. It is an important transport hub for public transport in Bristol, with bus services to various parts of the city and surrounding districts, and a ferry service to the city centre in addition to the train services. Bristol's other main-line station, Bristol Parkway, is on the northern outskirts of the Bristol conurbation. It opened on 31 August 1840 as the western terminus of the Great Western Railway from London Paddington station. The whole railway including Temple Meads was the first one designed by the British engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Soon the station was also used by the Bristol and Exeter Railway, the Bristol and Gloucester Railway, the Bristol Harbour Railway and the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway. To accommodate the increasing number of trains the station was expanded in the 1870s by Francis Fox; and again in the 1930s by P E Culverhouse. Brunel's terminus is no longer part of the operational station. The historical significance of the station has been noted, and most of the site is Grade 1 listed. Temple Meads is now owned by Network Rail and is operated under a franchise by First Great Western who provide the majority of trains to London, along with local services and inter-urban routes to destinations such as Cardiff, Southampton, Portsmouth and Weymouth. Long-distance services are provided by CrossCountry to destinations as diverse as Plymouth and Penzance in the South-West of England; Manchester Piccadilly and York in the North; and Edinburgh and Aberdeen in Scotland. A few trains to London Waterloo station are provided by South West Trains. More than 7.8 million people entered and left the station in the twelve months to March 2010, an increase of more than 2 million in five years. This makes it the 33rd most-used Network Rail station and the 13th-busiest outside the London area. In addition, it was estimated that more than 975,000 people used the