Stapleton Road station - various events, incidents and developments (merged topic)

[whole diary]

[TonyK]

Hello Cakes, and I add my welcome to Chris's. A bit of good news from the Bristol Post:

Man survives being hit by train at Stapleton Road station

A MAN survived being hit by a train at Stapleton Road station.

British Transport Police (BTP^▸ (British Transport Police)) and South Western Ambulance Service were called at 6.43pm yesterday to tend to the injured man.

A BTP spokesman said the incident was not being treated as suspicious. He added: "Paramedics from the ambulance service also attended and the man was taken to a local hospital, where he remains in a stable condition.

"The train involved was a Great Malvern to Westbury service and the train line was handed back to Network Rail at 7.24pm."


Read more: http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Man-survives-hit-train-Stapleton-Road-station/story-18108843-detail/story.html#ixzz2KWQoRo2M

[cakes]

thankyou for the welcome

what a relief!!! so glad he is alive and i will be wishing him a speedy recovery!!!

[Chris from Nailsea]

I'm sure we all offer him those best wishes, cakes - and thanks for posting! 

And, on a rather lighter note, in the circumstances:

... the man was taken to a local hospital, where he remains in a stable condition.

Hopefully, they won't misteak him for a horse. 

[cakes]

lol chris.... lets hope

[swrural]

I'll be honest, I was terrified when I heard this  as my son only lives a little way away in the Ashley hill area.   

I expect all parents with youthful offspring who live in that area of Bristol felt the same, there are literally thousands there.

[trainbuff]

lol chris.... lets hope

Welcome to the forum. All too frequent these events

[Cruithne3753]

Noticed some works going on there.  Early preparations to restoring four-track?

[the void]

replacing the footbridge.

[swrural]

With lifts too?

[the void]

you can't have lifts at an unstaffed station, what would happen if there was a problem!?

[Network SouthEast]

I'm not aware of any rules against lifts at unstaffed stations.

Staff at stations that do have lifts are not trained lift engineers. Any problems with the lifts at unstaffed stations would be likely dealt the same way as at staffed stations, i.e. people trapped inside the lift use the Help/Alarm button which contacts the lift contractor who then deal with the problem.

The only reason I can see against having a lift at an unstaffed station is the potential for vandalism.

[paul7575]

I can think of a few SWT^▸ (South West Trains) stations with lifts in my area which, (although staffed most of the day), leave the lifts on once the staff have gone for the night.  As an example, Eastleigh had some minor rebuilding work a couple of years ago specifically so as to leave the up side lift available for passengers when the station was unstaffed.

Paul

 

[swrural]

Stapleton road is unstaffed?    

I think they used to have a newsagent and buffet once.

Axminster is unstaffed outside office hours and the lifts work OK, all hours.

[trainer]

I have a distant memory of changing trains in the late 50s/early 60s at Stapleton Road (as a small boy of course) and there was plenty of activity as it was a connecting point, before Parkway was built, for changing from trains from S Wales going to Bath and onwards not calling at Temple Meads.  I seem to think there was a buffet of some sort.  The platforms had a wooden canopy.  I clearly recall steam and that it was very cold.  I cannot reconcile the current basic open platforms I see frequently, with the atmosphere of the far off days, but I imagine it's still a cold place to wait for a train.  I doubt we shall see four platforms there again.

[Chris from Nailsea]

Many thanks for posting your recollections on this forum, trainer. 

I've now taken the opportunity to move and merge some five previous topics on the subject of 'Stapleton Road station' into this one here - as ever, purely in the interests of continuity and ease of future reference.