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Bath Spa railway station is the principal station serving the city of Bath in South West England. It is on the Great Western Main Line, 106 miles 71 chains (106.89 mi; 172.0 km) down the line from the zero point at London Paddington between Chippenham to the east and Oldfield Park to the west.[2] Its three-letter station code is BTH.

Bath Spa
Main buildings seen from Dorchester Street
General information
Location	Bath, Bath and North East Somerset England
Coordinates	51.3775°N 2.3564°W / 51.3775; -2.3564
Grid reference	ST752643
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BTH
Classification	DfT category C1
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
31 August 1840	Opened as Bath
1949	Renamed Bath Spa
Passengers
2016/17	6.432 million
Interchange	0.197 million
2017/18	6.396 million
Interchange	0.196 million
2018/19	6.538 million
Interchange	0.194 million
2019/20	6.433 million
Interchange	0.198 million
2020/21	1.199 million
Interchange	36,281
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name	BATH SPA STATION
Designated	11 August 1972 (1972-08-11)
Reference no.	1395629[1]
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station is managed by Great Western Railway, who operate all trains at this station.

History

Bath Spa station was built in 1840 for the Great Western Railway by Brunel and is now a Grade II* listed building.[1] It is in an asymmetrical Tudor style with curving gables on the north bank of the Avon where the line curves across from the southern bank to the station and then back again.[3] Opened on 31 August 1840, the station was named Bath and was renamed Bath Spa in 1949 to distinguish it from Bath Green Park station, which did not have its name altered from Bath until 1951.[4]

The station has wide spacing between the platforms because it was built with two broad gauge carriage sidings between the platform lines. The original station featured a hammerbeam roof that covered the area between the platforms, similar to that which still exists at Bristol Temple Meads. However, Bath's roof was removed in 1897 when the station was remodelled with longer platforms.[1][5]

A three-track goods shed was built immediately west of the station, to the north of the main track. In 1877 a goods depot was built about 500 metres to the west at Westmoreland and the goods shed was demolished for the station remodelling in 1897.[5]

A footbridge leads from the rear of the station across the Avon, allowing direct access to the Widcombe area of the city. Open in 1862, the bridge was originally made from wood and tolled (known locally as Halfpenny Bridge). However, this original structure collapsed disastrously in 1877 with a number of deaths, and the present steel girder bridge was erected as a replacement later that same year.[6]

Redevelopment

Since privatisation Great Western Railway has managed Bath Spa. In 2005 the company obtained listed building consent for alterations to the building, including the installation of lifts to the platforms. Ticket barriers have also been installed.[7]

Other developments started in 2011 to integrate the station with the new Bath bus station and SouthGate shopping centre,[8] and redevelop some of the station car park and northern ramp into a restaurant complex at a cost of £12 million.[9] There are plans to adapt some arches at the station to encourage retail use.[10]

Bath Spa won awards for Best Medium-Sized Station and Overall Best Station at the 2013 International Station Awards.[11]

The station was modified in April 2017 for the Great Western Main Line electrification project. Because of its listed status, the platform canopies could not be cut back to fit overhead electrification equipment on the alignment and so the platforms were widened so that future electrification masts could be installed between the tracks. (Electrification through the station was deferred in November 2016). The work provided a larger circulation area and reduced the gap between train and platform.[12]

Other stations in Bath

v t e Railway stations in Bath
Legend
Great Western Main Line to London Bathford Halt River Avon Bathampton Junction Wessex Main Line to Westbury Bathampton Hampton Row Halt St James's Bridge Bath Green Park Bath Spa (GWR) (MR and SDJR)   Skew Bridge Westmoreland Road goods yard Oldfield Park Somerset & Dorset Jt Rly to Radstock River Avon Weston Twerton-on-Avon Midland Bath Branch to Bristol and Gloucester Great Western Main Line to Bristol

The only other open station in Bath is Oldfield Park, a small commuter station in a western suburb, with limited services to Bristol and to Bath Spa, and onward stations.[13]

Former stations now closed in Bath were Green Park (the Midland terminus, whose overall roof and primary buildings survive, and which for part of its life was named "Bath Queen Square"),[14] Bathampton and Weston (a suburban station on the Midland line which closed in 1953). Westmoreland Road was a GWR goods station.[15] Twerton-on-Avon, and Hampton Row Halt, both on the GWR route, closed in 1917 as a World War I economy measure.[16]

Services

All services at Bath Spa are operated by Great western Railway. They provide a regular services between London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads. These give a service from Bath to Chippenham, Swindon and Reading while some extend beyond Bristol to Weston-super-Mare or Taunton.

There are also services between Cardiff Central and Portsmouth Harbour, and between Great Malvern or Gloucester and Westbury or Weymouth. These provide links to many smaller stations along these lines.[17] Services are mostly operated by Class 165 and Class 166 units.[18]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Bristol Temple Meads		Great Western Railway (Great Western Main Line)		Chippenham
Keynsham		Great Western Railway (Wessex Main Line)		Bradford-on-Avon
Oldfield Park		Great Western Railway (Heart of Wessex Line)		Freshford

References

External links

• Slow motion video of Bath Spa

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[de] Bahnhof Bath Spa

Bath Spa ist ein Bahnhof in der britischen Stadt Bath. Er wurde 1840 von der Great Western Railway eröffnet, liegt an der bedeutenden Strecke Great Western Main Line und wird heute von Zügen der Gesellschaften First Great Western und South West Trains bedient. Im Betriebsjahr 2004/05 nutzten 3,726 Millionen Fahrgäste den Bahnhof.

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- [en] Bath Spa railway station

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