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Filton Abbey Wood railway station serves the town of Filton in South Gloucestershire, England, inside the Bristol conurbation. It is from . Its three letter station code is FIT. There are three platforms but minimal facilities. The station 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 most train services at the station, with two trains per day operated by CrossCountry. The general service level is eight trains per hour - two to South Wales, two to , two toward and two toward . Filton Abbey Wood is the third station on the site. The first station, Filton, was opened in 1863 by the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway. The station had a single platform, with a second added in 1886 to cope with traffic from the Severn Tunnel. The station was closed in 1903, replaced by a new station, Filton Junction, further north, which was built at the junction with the newly constructed Badminton Line from . The new station had four platforms, each with waiting rooms and large canopies. Services at Filton Junction declined in the second half of the twentieth century, with the station buildings and Badminton Line platforms demolished in 1976. The station was closed completely in 1996, replaced by the current station, Filton Abbey Wood. This was built south of the original station, adjacent to a new Ministry of Defence office development. The station was built with two platforms, but a third was added in 2004. The line through Filton Abbey Wood is not electrified, but will be as part of the planned modernisation of the Great Western Main Line. A new platform will also be built, allowing increased services between Bristol Parkway and . == Description == Filton Abbey Wood railway station is located in the Filton area of South Gloucestershire, within the Bristol conurbation. The area to the west of the station is primarily residential, while to the east is a large commercial area, including MoD Abbey Wood which is adjacent to the station. The main access to the station is via a long footpath (a slope of approximately 1 in 8) and bridge from Emma-Chris Way to the north, which has a small car park.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Station facilities for Filton Abbey Wood (FIT) )〕 There is also foot access from MoD Abbey Wood to the east. The station is on the Cross Country Route between and , and just off the South Wales Main Line south of and the eastern end of the Henbury Loop Line. It is from Bristol Temple Meads and from (via Bristol Parkway).〔〔〔Railways in the United Kingdom are, for historical reasons, measured in miles and chains. There are 80 chains to the mile.〕 The station is just north of Filton South Junction, where the northbound line to South Wales and the westbound line to Avonmouth split from the line to Bristol Parkway, and just south of Filton Junction No. 1, where the southbound lines from South Wales and Parkway converge.〔 The next station south is , the next station north is Patchway, and the next station east is Bristol Parkway.〔 The station is on an alignment of 032 degrees, curving towards the west.〔 There are three active platforms: platform 1 is the easternmost, separated from platforms 2 and 3, which share an island, by two running lines. Platform 1 is for southbound trains and has a speed limit of . Platform 2 is for northbound trains towards Bristol Parkway, but can be used by trains towards South Wales. Platform 3 is for northbound trains towards South Wales. Both platforms 2 and 3 have a speed limit of , and all three platforms are long.〔 Facilities at the station are minimal - there are metal and glass shelters on each platform, and some seating. A small ticket office operates on platform 1 on weekday afternoons, but there are no other facilities for buying tickets and the station is generally unstaffed. There are customer help points, giving next train information for both platforms, as well as dot-matrix displays showing the next trains on each platform. A small pay and display car park with 30 spaces is to the north of the station, as are racks for eight bicycles. CCTV cameras are in operation at the station.〔 A number of buses stop by the station car park. Over the decade 2002–2012, passenger numbers at Filton Abbey Wood almost doubled, from 395,000 to 771,000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Station Usage Estimates 2011/12 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Station Usage Estimates 2002/03 )〕〔Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Filton Abbey Wood, from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.〕 In the 2006/07 financial year, over 50,000 passengers used Filton Abbey Wood to travel to or from Bristol Temple Meads. The line through Filton Abbey Wood has a loading gauge of W8, and the line handles over 15 million train tonnes per year. It is not electrified, though it is planned that it will be electrified as part of the 21st-century modernisation of the Great Western Main Line.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Filton Abbey Wood railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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