File:Station Road boulder marking the original location of Patchway railway station-Geograph-4474488-by-Jaggery.jpg

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An information board on the boulder records that the railway came to Patchway in 1863 as a single track line as far as Pilning. Patchway Station was just here. There was a weighbridge by the station to check that wagons were not overladen. The tall houses in Station Road were built for railway officials such as the station master.

After the Severn Tunnel opened in 1886, so many trains brought coal from South Wales that a second track had to be built. The new track was at a different level LinkExternal link so the station had to be moved further south to its present site, about 750 metres away (and further away from Patchway), where the lines are at the same level.
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13 May 2015

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51°31'55.13"N, 2°34'1.20"W

heading: 270 degree

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51°31'55.13"N, 2°34'1.92"W

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