St Andrews Road railway station is located near to St Andrew's Road and serves a large industrial area near to Avonmouth, Bristol, England. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Great Western Railway. This station is 10 mi north-west from Bristol Temple Meads on the Severn Beach Line. All trains serving it are operated by and the station is managed by Great Western Railway. DB Cargo UK also operate coal trains to the Aberthaw power stations in Wales on an 'as required' basis and formerly to the now closed Didcot A Power Station from the adjacent bulk freight terminal. For many years, it has been the least used railway station in Bristol.

History

The station was opened in March 1917 for workmen, but closed on 13 November 1922. It reopened on 30 June 1924 as a public station. For many years the station had an infrequent service in each direction, but this was increased to hourly in the December 2021 timetable change.

Service

All services at St Andrews Road are operated by Great Western Railway using Turbo DMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: The station is also served by one early morning service on weekdays that extends beyond Bristol Temple Meads to Weston-super-Mare, one evening weekday service to Salisbury and one Sunday afternoon service that continues to Exeter St Davids. Services heading towards Severn Beach generally originate at Weston-super-Mare. However, all services from Severn Beach terminate at Bristol Temple Meads, and therefore there is only a very limited service reaching there, but there is more regular service from there to St Andrews Road.

References in popular culture

St Andrew's Road station was featured in the Channel 4 series Paul Merton's Secret Stations Season 1 Episode 2 broadcast on 8 May 2016. This series features British comedian Paul Merton visiting various request stop railway stations around Britain.