page_title: Bristol Parkway railway station
section_title: Rail
hierarchical_section_title: Bristol Parkway railway station / Services / Rail
caption_attribution_description: English: A Great Western Railway Class 158 awaiting it's next duties at Bristol Parkway.
context_page_description: Bristol Parkway railway station, on the South Wales Main Line, is in the Stoke Gifford area in the northern suburbs of the Bristol conurbation. It is 112 miles from London Paddington. The station was opened in 1972 by British Rail, and was the first in a new generation of park and ride stations. It is the third-most heavily used station in the West of England, after Bristol Temple Meads and Bath Spa. There are four platforms, and a well-equipped waiting area. The station is managed by Great Western Railway, who provide most of the trains at the station, with CrossCountry providing the rest.
  Electrification using the 25 kV AC overhead system reached Bristol Parkway in late 2018, and electric trains in the Swindon and London direction commenced passenger service on 30 December 2018. This is part of the planned modernisation of the Great Western Main Line.
context_section_description: The station is managed by Great Western Railway, who operate most rail services from the station. As of the December 2013 timetable, the basic Great Western Railway weekday service consists of two trains per hour each way between London Paddington and Cardiff Central (with one extended to Swansea), one terminating service to and from Weston-super-Mare, and one service each way between Westbury and Gloucester via Bristol Temple Meads (with one train every two hours extended to Great Malvern and Weymouth).
  CrossCountry also operate trains from Bristol Parkway, the basic weekday service consists of one hourly train each way between Bristol Temple Meads and Manchester Piccadilly, and one hourly train each way between Plymouth, Bristol and Edinburgh Waverley via Leeds and Newcastle. Both these services run via Birmingham New Street.
  Great Western Railway services between London and Wales are formed of High Speed Train (HST) sets or Class 800 bi-mode multiple units, while other GWR services are formed using Class 150, 153, 158 and 166 diesel multiple-unit trains. CrossCountry services are usually formed of Class 220 and 221 Voyager diesel-electric multiple units, with some services between Scotland and the South West employing HST sets.
  The standard journey time to London Paddington is 90 minutes, to Cardiff Central 40 minutes, to Birmingham New Street 75 minutes, and to Bristol Temple Meads 12 minutes.
caption: Local stopping services operated by Great Western Railway serve the station as well. Here a Class 158 awaits its next duties.
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