Portal:Trains/Selected article/Week 52, 2016

Patchway railway station (station code PWY) is on the South Wales Main Line, 6 miles (10 km) from Bristol Temple Meads, serving the Bristol suburbs of Patchway and Stoke Gifford in South Gloucestershire, England. As of 2015^[update] it is managed by Great Western Railway, which is the third franchise to be responsible for the station since privatisation in 1997. They provide all train services at the station, mainly a train every hour in each direction between Cardiff Central and Taunton. The station was opened by the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway in 1863 with a single platform, 0.5 miles (0.8 km) west of the current location, but was resited in 1885 when the line was widened to double track. The station once had large buildings and a goods yard which were demolished in the late 20th century, with small brick shelters built in their place. The line through Patchway is due to be electrified as part of the 21st-century modernisation of the Great Western Main Line.