Talk:Filton Abbey Wood railway station

Change name
Can some clever person please change Abbeywood to Abbey Wood (the station title is definitely two words) on both the article title and in the text. Thanks - Adrian Pingstone 20:19, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Portakabin
The change from Portakabin to temporary building may seem petty but others have been sued, or at least threatened, over this sort of thing. Lawyers write to magazines insisting that their brand name is not used generically. I can recall Private Eye having a problem with the legal people acting on behalf of Biro and I think Tannoy have done the same thing. Britmax 09:29, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Service pattern
I think that the service pattern at Filton is too complex to show in full. Don't forget that this is an encyclopedia, not a timetable. How about this...

There are esentially just two FGW routes (lef tor right at Filton Junction), each of which has up to three terminal points at one end or other, plus the odd CrossCountry service. Geof Sheppard (talk) 13:04, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Filton Junction
There are a number of references in the Infobox as if this station is a rebuild or rename of Filton Junction station. It isn't, the names refer to two separate and distinct stations. As the main text says, Filton Junction station was finally closed in 1996 when Abbey Wood station opened a few hundred yards to the south of the former (should be past tense though). Could this be made clearer in the infobox? I presume the map co-ordinates cited refer to Abbey Wood rather than Filton? In fact Filton (Junction) station should, I think, have its own page; or at least its own paragraph! Anyone else agree? Andywebby (talk) 16:05, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
 * We shouldn't have an article on Filton Junction station alone - if anything, we should cover the diamond junction of lines in the area. There's a lot involved there that's to minor to justify their own article, but the diamond deserves coverage.
 * Historically Abbeywood has almost nothing in common with Filton, even though they're adjacent. Filton Junction was an important junction that became a convenient place in which to put some very minor platforms too. Abbeywood was a development from scratch, to handle commuter traffic for the large MOD site. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:18, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, I've expanded the history of it all. We can split it if needbe. I'd say that Filton 1 and Abbey Wood should be the same article, as they were more or less the same site, and then it just makes sense to put Filton Junction in there too. -mattbuck (Talk) 18:31, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Anomalies and further info on goods yard
There are some anomolies in the article:

re Filton Junction: "The station buildings were demolished in 1976, as were the platforms serving Badminton Line trains, as no trains on this line called at Filton anymore. The remaining two platforms had small replacement shelters built on them.."

This is not strictly the case - the Badminton platforms were demolished well before the station buildings - this allowed for track realignment on the curve toward Stoke Gifford. In fact one of the photos accompanying the article shows the station buildings to still be substantially intact in June 1977.

Name: "..and for 58 years was known as Filton Junction"

The length of time seems irrelevant unless you say what the name changed from and to - It reverted to plain 'Filton' on 6th May 1968

History: "The first, Filton, opened in 1864 just north the site of the current Filton Abbey Wood..."

however next paragraph:

First Station: "The first station at Filton opened on 8 September 1863 when services began..."

Further Information may be worth including

re the Goods yard:

The article reads "Facilities included a shed and covered loading platform, and, in later years, a coal depot..."

A coal siding was added after WW1 (designated 'NCB siding' after 1948). Goods facilities closed on 5th July 1965 except for coal traffic - By this time a large Coal Concentration Depot had been established in the goods yard. "Opened in October 1965 by the Chairman of the National Coal Board, Lord Robens. Trading as the Bristol Mechanised Coal Company Ltd it was the first concentration depot in the South West of England, and the most modern of its kind at the time." Source http://bristol-rail.co.uk/wiki/Filton_Coal_Concentration_Depot This seems important enough to warrant an expansion of this paragraph?

Track Layout Changes:

Is it worth mentioning that when the lines running from Bristol to Filton were quadrified, the Badminton lines become the 'Main Lines' whilst the South Wales lines became the 'Relief Lines' between Filton Junction and Doctor Day's Junction. Later de-quadrified as part of the Bristol MAS project in the late 60s but currently undergoing re-quadrification? Andywebby (talk) 23:42, 30 September 2015 (UTC)


 * I've corrected the date as mentioned, and changed the wording of Filton Junction. Regarding the buildings I'd have to check the sources, but I left them at work so it will be sometime this week. The Bristol Rail wiki is not a reliable source (though images from it are ok), and as I do not have the book you mention I can't add that info myself. Regarding the track changes, I don't believe my sources mentioned that, and unless we can cite it we can't include it. -mattbuck (Talk) 21:35, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I've checked my source (Oakley Gloucestershire stations) and it says the principle station buildings were demolished in 1976, so I've amended the wording. Regarding the coal siding, I just ordered that book so will look into it. -mattbuck (Talk) 12:28, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I have just got my copy of Clark, and I have updated the article with the information contained within. Unfortunately there's not sufficient info for the detailed bit about the coal siding, but that's probably not too relevant anyway. Thanks for bringing this book to my attention, it looks quite interesting! -mattbuck (Talk) 14:23, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

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What is v/v?
"where facing cross-overs allow transfer between the Main and Relief lines and v/v, and just south of Filton Junction No. 1,"

Some sort of technical jargon? Only thing I can find online is to do with volume in chemistry. Incidentally this section was massively changed last month and I doubt that the old references that are used stand up anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Victoriosissimus (talk • contribs) 00:04, 31 December 2018 (UTC) Upon reflection I'm guessing it's vice-versa. Hardly encyclopaedic to have it abbreviated in such a way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Victoriosissimus (talk • contribs) 00:08, 31 December 2018 (UTC)