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Yate railway station serves the town of Yate in South Gloucestershire, in south west England. The station is located on the main Bristol to Birmingham line between Bristol Parkway and Cam & Dursley, and is operated by Great Western Railway. The station is staffed on weekday mornings.〔(National Rail Enquiries )〕 It has two platforms, separated by the A432 road bridge. An automated ticket machine was installed in mid-2007, but stopped functioning due to vandalism and is reported to be "unlikely to be replaced in the foreseeable future".〔(Yate Station User Group )〕 A new ticket machine was installed in 2013. ==History== The Yate station first opened on 8 July 1844 and closed in January 1965, along with other wayside stations on the former Bristol and Gloucester Railway; the local stopping service on the route having been withdrawn as a result of the Beeching Axe.〔(The Victoria County History of Gloucestershire, Volume 14, Yate: Settlement (draft), p.10 ) Victoria County History.ac.uk; Retrieved 2013-12-13〕〔(British Railways Board - The Reshaping of British Railways, Part 1 Report (HMSO) 1963, p.121 )''The Railways Archive''; Retrieved 2013-12-13〕 This had both its platforms on the southern side of the road bridge mentioned above - the original 1844 goods shed still stands (now in commercial use) next to the old southbound platform site.〔("Viewfinder - Goods shed, Yate Railway Station, Station Road, Yate, Avon" )''English Heritage''; Retrieved 2013-12-12〕 The station was reopened by British Rail on 11 May 1989 with the backing of Avon County Council. When first open, trains headed south along the original B&GR/Midland route via to reach Bristol, although a connection was subsequently laid in to link this route with the rival Great Western Railway's 1903 "Badminton Line" from Wooton Bassett to (the current South Wales Main Line) in 1908. The new connection left the older line by means a flying junction at Yate South〔(Yate South Junction signalling diagram )''Signalling Record Society''; Retrieved 2013-12-12〕 before heading southwest to join the SWML at the triangular Westerleigh Junction. Though jointly built by the two companies for the purpose of giving the GWR access to the Severn Rail Bridge and Severn and Wye Railway, it also provided an alternative route to Bristol Temple Meads via Filton and the Great Western soon made use of it to compete with the Midland for Bristol to Birmingham traffic, much to the dismay of the latter company. All services now use this newer line to get to Bristol, as the original 1844 route through was abandoned in January 1970 following the completion of the Bristol area resignalling scheme. A short section of the old route was retained from Yate South Junction after the rest closed, to serve a domestic waste transfer depot & fuel oil distribution terminal at Westerleigh sidings.〔(Railscot - Westerleigh North Junction ) www.railbrit.co.uk; Retrieved 2013-12-13〕 This line is still in use today. It is the junction station for the Thornbury Branchline, however the passenger stations on this branch have long since closed (trains ceased in 1944) and the line remained open to serve Tytherington Quarry until September 2013, when it was placed 'Out of Use' by Network Rail following the mothballing of the quarry at the beginning of the year.〔("Calls to Restore Railway Line Following Quarry Closure" ) Souvebois, Marion,''Gloucestershire Gazette'' news article 2-01-2013; Retrieved 2013-12-12〕〔("New Lease of Life Planned For Tracks Behind Thornbury Quarry" ) Gardner, Rachel ''Bristol Post'' article 5-01-2013; Retrieved 2013-12-12〕 In the Strategic Rail Authority’s 2007/08 financial year, Yate was ranked as the 1104th most-used station in the UK. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yate railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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