Place Oldland Common Grid reference ST676717 | Area South Gloucestershire Platforms in use 1 | |
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Owned by London, Midland and Scottish Railway
London Midland Region of British Railways
Avon Valley Railway 2 December 1935 Opened (Oldland Common) 7 December 1964 Renamed (Oldland Common Halt) Owners London, Midland and Scottish Railway, London Midland Region of British Railways, Avon Valley Railway Similar Avonmouth (BPRP) railway st, Ham Green Halt railway st, Hotwells railway station, Clifton Bridge railway st, Avon Riverside railway st | ||
Oldland Common is a railway station on the Avon Valley Railway. The station is near to the site of a previous station which was on the-then LMS Bath branch from Mangotsfield.
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Earlier station
Oldland Common's first station opened on 2 December 1935 on the LMS branch line that had been originally opened by the Midland Railway through this site in 1869. The station was intended to serve the growing suburban development in the area. It had platforms built of railway sleepers, and a small ticket office on the footpath that led down from the top of the cutting in which it was sited. In its last years before closure with the line on 7 March 1966 it was designated as an unstaffed halt.
Present station
Opened by the Avon Valley Railway on 6 March 1991. Passengers are invited to leave the train to watch the engine run round its train.
The station lies on the Bristol and Bath Railway Path.