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Portishead Railway
The Portishead Railway is a branch line railway running from Portishead in Somerset to the main line immediately west of Bristol, England.〔Christopher Awdry, ''Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies'', Guild Publishing, London, 1990, ISBN 1-85260-049-7〕 It was constructed by the ''Bristol & Portishead Pier and Railway Company'', but it was always operated by its main line neighbour, and was more usually thought of as ''the Portishead branch'' or ''the Portishead railway''.
It opened as a broad gauge (7 ft 0¼ in) line to connect new docks at Portbury, at the west side of the mouth of the River Avon with the railway network, and it opened to Portishead in 1867, and to the docks in 1879.
The docks were always overshadowed by Bristol and Avonmouth docks, and the ordinary passenger service declined in the twentieth century, leading to closure to passengers in 1964, and to all traffic in 1981.
When a new high capacity freight terminal was opened at the site of the Royal Portbury Dock, the line as far as that point was reopened to accommodate the new traffic, in 2002. At present (2015) public consultation is taking place to reopen the entire line to passenger traffic in 2019, as part of the MetroWest proposals.
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