General information | |||||
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Location | Sea Mills, Bristol England | ||||
Coordinates | 51°28′48″N 2°38′59″W / 51.4799°N 2.6498°W | ||||
Grid reference | ST549758 | ||||
Managed by | Great Western Railway | ||||
Platforms | 1 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | SML | ||||
Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
Key dates | |||||
6 March 1865 | Station opened | ||||
1906-07 | Station rebuilt and second platform opened | ||||
19 October 1970 | Reduced to single track | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2019/20 | 58,204 | ||||
2020/21 | 13,108 | ||||
2021/22 | 36,408 | ||||
2022/23 | 62,422 | ||||
2023/24 | 78,810 | ||||
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Sea Mills railway station is on the Severn Beach Line and serves the districts of Sea Mills, Stoke Bishop, Sneyd Park and nearby Westbury on Trym in Bristol, England. It is 6 miles (9.7 km) from Bristol Temple Meads, situated at the confluence of the River Avon and River Trym and near the A4 Bristol Portway. Its three letter station code is SML. The station has a single platform which serves trains in both directions. As of 2015[update] it is managed by Great Western Railway, which is the third franchise to be responsible for the station since privatisation in 1997. They provide all train services at the station, mainly a train every 30 minutes in each direction.
The station was opened in 1865 by the Bristol Port Railway and Pier, and had a single platform. It later became part of the Clifton Extension Railway, and had a second platform built. The station was expanded over the years, and at one point had four porters staffing it. However the Severn Beach Line declined over the latter half of the twentieth century and by the 1970s the station had no staff and only one platform. Services however have increased since 2000 to a train every 30 minutes in each direction.