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Patchway railway station, the Glossary

Patchway railway station is on the South Wales Main Line, serving the town of Patchway and village of Stoke Gifford in South Gloucestershire, England.^[1]

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Railway stations in South Gloucestershire
South Wales Main Line

A38 road

The A38, parts of which are known as Devon Expressway, Bristol Road and Gloucester Road, is a major A-class trunk road in England.

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Avon (county)

Avon was a non-metropolitan and ceremonial county in the west of England that existed between 1974 and 1996.

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The Badminton railway line is a railway line opened in 1903 by the Great Western Railway between the Great Western Main Line at Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire and Patchway and Filton, north of Bristol, England.

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Bath Spa railway station

Bath Spa railway station is the principal station serving the city of Bath in Somerset, England. Patchway railway station and Bath Spa railway station are railway stations served by Great Western Railway.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath (RP) is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, in England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths.

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Heinrich Bauer Publishing (Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG), trading as Bauer Media Group, is a German multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Hamburg.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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Bristol and South Wales Union Railway

The Bristol and South Wales Union Railway was built to connect Bristol, England, with south Wales.

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Bristol Post

The Bristol Post is a city/regional five-day-a-week (formerly appearing six days per week) newspaper covering news in the city of Bristol, including stories from the whole of Greater Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

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Bristol Rail Campaign

Bristol Rail Campaign (formerly FoSBR, Friends of Bristol Suburban Railways) is a Bristol-based campaign group, calling for better rail transport in the Bristol area.

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Bristol–Exeter line

The Bristol to Exeter line is a major branch of the Great Western Main Line in the West of England and runs from Bristol, to Exeter, from where it continues as the Exeter to Plymouth line.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997.

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Broad-gauge railway

A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard-gauge railways.

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Chain (unit)

The chain (abbreviated ch) is a unit of length equal to 66 feet (22 yards), used in both the US customary and Imperial unit systems.

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Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of closed-circuit television cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

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Community service is selfless work performed by a person or group of people for the benefit and betterment of their community contributing to a noble cause.

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Conurbation

A conurbation is a region comprising a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area.

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Cross Country Route

The Cross Country Route is a long-distance rail route in England.

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CrossCountry

CrossCountry (legal name XC Trains Limited) is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains, operating the current CrossCountry franchise.

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Department for Transport

The Department for Transport (DfT) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Diesel multiple unit

A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines.

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Filton Abbey Wood railway station

Filton Abbey Wood railway station serves the town of Filton in South Gloucestershire, England; it is located from. Patchway railway station and Filton Abbey Wood railway station are DfT Category F1 stations, railway stations in South Gloucestershire and railway stations served by Great Western Railway.

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Geograph Britain and Ireland

Geograph Britain and Ireland is a web-based project, begun in March 2005, to create a freely accessible archive of geographically located photographs of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas

The Geographers' A–Z Street Atlas, commonly shortened to A–Z (pronounced "Ay to Zed"), is a title given to any one of a range of atlases of streets in the United Kingdom produced by Geographers' A–Z Map Company Limited.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (abbreviated Glos.) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Grade (slope)

The grade (US) or gradient (UK) (also called stepth, slope, incline, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal.

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Great Western Main Line

The Great Western Main Line (GWML) is a main line railway in England that runs westwards from London Paddington to.

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Great Western Main Line upgrade

In the 2010s Network Rail modernised the Great Western Main Line, the South Wales Main Line, and other associated lines.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales.

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Great Western Railway (train operating company)

Great Western Railway (GWR) is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that operates the Greater Western passenger railway franchise.

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Greater Western franchise

Greater Western is a railway franchise for the provision of passenger services from London Paddington to the Cotswolds, West of England, South West England and South Wales.

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Henbury Loop Line

The Henbury Loop Line, also known as the Filton to Avonmouth Line, is a railway line following the boundary between Bristol and South Gloucestershire between the Severn Beach Line at Hallen Marsh Junction, Avonmouth and the Cross Country Route/South Wales Main Line at Filton.

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Insulated glazing

Insulating glass (IG) consists of two or more glass window panes separated by a space to reduce heat transfer across a part of the building envelope.

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".

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John Penrose

John David Penrose (born 22 June 1964) is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Weston-super-Mare from 2005 until 2024.

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Loading gauge

A loading gauge is a diagram or physical structure that defines the maximum height and width dimensions in railway vehicles and their loads.

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Local Government Act 1972

The Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.

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MetroWest (Bristol)

MetroWest, formerly known as the Greater Bristol Metro, is a project to improve the rail services in Bristol, England, and the surrounding region.

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Midhurst

Midhurst is a market town, parish and civil parish in West Sussex, England.

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Modern Railways

Modern Railways is a monthly British magazine covering the rail transport industry, which was published by Ian Allan until March 2012 and Key Publishing since then.

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National Library of Scotland

The National Library of Scotland (NLS; Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba; Naitional Leebrar o Scotland) is one of the country's National Collections.

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National Rail

National Rail (NR) is the trading name licensed for use by the Rail Delivery Group, an unincorporated association whose membership consists of the passenger train operating companies (TOCs) of England, Scotland, and Wales.

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Nationalization

Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.

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Network Rail

Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain.

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Newcastle railway station

Newcastle station (also known as Newcastle Central and locally as Central Station) is a railway station in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom.

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Newsquest

Newsquest Media Group Limited is the second largest publisher of regional and local newspapers in the United Kingdom.

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Northcliffe Media (formerly Northcliffe Newspapers Group) was a large regional newspaper publisher in the UK and Central and Eastern Europe.

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Nottingham

Nottingham (locally) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England.

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Office of Rail and Road

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the economic and safety regulation of Britain's railways, and the economic monitoring of National Highways.

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Ordnance Survey

The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain.

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Ordnance Survey National Grid

The Ordnance Survey National Grid reference system (OSGB), also known as British National Grid (BNG), is a system of geographic grid references, distinct from latitude and longitude, whereby any location in Great Britain can be described in terms of its distance from the origin (0, 0), which lies to the west of the Isles of Scilly.

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Passing loop

A passing loop (UK usage) or passing siding (North America) (also called a crossing loop, crossing place, refuge loop or, colloquially, a hole) is a place on a single line railway or tramway, often located at or near a station, where trains or trams travelling in opposite directions can pass each other.

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Patchway

Patchway is a town in South Gloucestershire, England, situated north-north west of central Bristol.

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Patchway Community School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Almondsbury in the English county of Gloucestershire.

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Platform 5

Platform 5 is a publisher that specialises in rail transport books and magazines.

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Poole

Poole is a coastal town and seaport on the south coast of England in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area in Dorset, England.

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Privatisation of British Rail

The privatisation of British Rail was the process by which ownership and operation of the railways of Great Britain passed from government control into private hands.

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Rail (magazine)

Rail is a British magazine on the subject of current rail transport in Great Britain.

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Rail services in the West of England

Rail services in the West of England refer to passenger rail journeys made in the Bristol commuter area.

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Railnews

Railnews is a national monthly newspaper and news website for the British railway network.

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Regional Railways

Regional Railways was one of the three passenger sectors of British Rail created in 1982 that existed until 1997, two years after Privatisation of British Rail.

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River Severn

The River Severn (Afon Hafren), at long, is the longest river in Great Britain.

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Robert Hale (publishers)

Robert Hale Limited was a London publisher of fiction and non-fiction books, founded in 1936, and also known as Robert Hale.

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Rolls-Royce Holdings

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational aerospace and defence company incorporated in February 2011.

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Sevenoaks

Sevenoaks is a town in Kent with a population of 29,506 situated south-east of London, England.

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Severn Tunnel

The Severn Tunnel (Twnnel Hafren) is a railway tunnel in the United Kingdom, linking South Gloucestershire in the west of England to Monmouthshire in south Wales under the estuary of the River Severn. Patchway railway station and Severn Tunnel are south Wales Main Line.

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The Severnside Community Rail Partnership is a community rail partnership in England, covering the network of routes radiating from Bristol.

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Sheffield

Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it.

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Signalling control

On a rail transport system, signalling control is the process by which control is exercised over train movements by way of railway signals and block systems to ensure that trains operate safely, over the correct route and to the proper timetable.

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South Gloucestershire

South Gloucestershire is a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, South West England.

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South Wales Main Line

The South Wales Main Line (Prif Linell De Cymru), originally known as the London, Bristol and South Wales Direct Railway or simply as the Bristol and South Wales Direct Railway, is a branch of the Great Western Main Line in Great Britain.

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Southampton

Southampton is a port city in Hampshire, England.

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Sprinter (British Rail)

The Sprinter is a family of diesel multiple unit trains in use on the British railway system.

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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Stoke Gifford

Stoke Gifford is a neighbourhood and parish and electoral ward in South Gloucestershire, England.

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Stoke Gifford depot

Stoke Gifford depot (or the Filton Triangle depot) is a railway depot built for AT300 units from the Hitachi A-train procured under the Intercity Express Programme.

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The History Press

The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history.

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Today's Railways UK

Today's Railways UK is an English-based monthly magazine covering rail transport in Great Britain.

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Transport Act 1947

The Transport Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 49) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Turnstile

A turnstile (also called a turnpike, gateline, baffle gate, automated gate, turn gate in some regions) is a form of gate which allows one person to pass at a time.

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United Kingdom railway station categories

The 2,579 railway stations on the National Rail network in Great Britain are classified into six categories (two of which are each divided into two subcategories) by the Department for Transport.

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Virgin CrossCountry

Virgin CrossCountry was a train operating company in the United Kingdom that operated the InterCity CrossCountry passenger franchise from January 1997 until November 2007.

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Wales & West

Wales & West was a train operating company in the United Kingdom that operated the South Wales & West franchise from 1996 until 2001.

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Wessex Main Line

The Wessex Main Line is the railway line from Bristol Temple Meads to Southampton Central.

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Wessex Trains

Wessex Trains was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by National Express that operated the Wessex Trains franchise from October 2001 until March 2006, when the franchise was merged with the Great Western and Thames Valley franchises to form the Greater Western franchise.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patchway_railway_station

Also known as Patchway station.

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See also

Railway stations in South Gloucestershire

South Wales Main Line

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