Portway Park & Ride railway station

Portway Park & Ride is a railway station on the Severn Beach line in the Avonmouth district of Bristol, England. The station is about 5 miles north-west of Bristol city centre and close to the M5 motorway.

Type: Railway station
Description: railway station in City of Bristol, England, UK
Also known as: “Portway Parkway railway station” and “Portway Parkway Station”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Lamplighters Marsh and Avonmouth Bridge.

Lamplighters Marsh

Nature reserve

Lamplighters Marsh is a public open space and local nature reserve near Shirehampton in the city of Bristol, England. It is a narrow strip of land between the railway line which connects Bristol to Avonmouth, and the River Avon.

Avonmouth Bridge

Bridge

Photo: Steinsky, CC BY-SA 1.0.

The Avonmouth Bridge is a road bridge that carries the M5 motorway over the River Avon into Somerset near Bristol, England. The main span is 538 ft long, and the bridge is 4,554 ft long, with an air draught above mean high water level of 98.4 ft. Avonmouth Bridge is situated 1,200 feet northwest of Portway Park & Ride railway station.

Portway park and ride

Bus stop

Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Portway park and ride site is on the A4 Portway at Shirehampton, to the north-west of Bristol, England, close to junction 18 of the M5 motorway. Portway park and ride is situated 670 feet north of Portway Park & Ride railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shirehampton and Pill.

Shirehampton

Suburb

Photo: Linda Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Shirehampton is a district of Bristol in England, near Avonmouth, at the northwestern edge of the city. It originated as a separate village, retains a High Street with a parish church and shops, and is still thought of as a village by many of its 6,867 inhabitants.

Pill

Village

Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Pill is a village in North Somerset, England, situated on the southern bank of the Avon, about 4 miles north-west of Bristol city centre. The village is the largest settlement in the civil parish of Pill and Easton-in-Gordano.

Avonmouth

Suburb

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Avonmouth is a port and outer suburb of Bristol, England, on the north bank of the mouth of the River Avon and the eastern shore of the Severn Estuary.