East Junction renewal

This spring we begin renewing sections of main upgrade. It takes place over two straight track at Bristol East Junction, which weekends this spring: lies just outside Bristol Temple Meads in the • Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 April St Phillips area of the city. This is • Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 May preparatory work ahead of the full replacement of the junction next year. Weekend work will t hen be ongoing, though mostly concentrated around Saturday Ultimately the junction needs replacing due nights. until early autumn when we have two to its age, and this presents a fantastic further solid weekends planned for opportunity to remodel the layout at the September and October. Further detail same time. The full upgrade in summer about the remodelling of Bristol East 2021 will therefore not only increase Junction will be provided over the coming reliability, but it will also help to improve months. operational flexibility to support future rail growth. Working within the context of the current Overview pandemic we are carefully following The work we're starting this month to relay Government guidelines on COVID-19, t o This newsletter aims to update you on these straight sections of track at the fringes ensure the safety of our workers and prevent railway work in the Bristol area. There is a of thejunction will ease the workload for the spread of the virus. We are confident this whole programme of work for the next two next summer reducing the length of the work can be undertaken safely. years that is currently being planned.

Filton Bank drainage work

Responding to COVID-19 We are nearing completion of our follow up t o ensure the safety of our workers. We will Safety of our workers is paramount and we work on Bank, after opening our two also have welfare cabins at Stapleton Road are carefully following Government new railway lines between Bristol Temple station. We will be using our access points guidelines on COVID-19 to protect our staff Meads and Filton Abbey Wood. behind Trust Ford on Muller Road and next and the public, and prevent the spread of t o the M32, while working continuously the virus. Further drainage work is needed alongside around the clock as follows: the track in the Horfield and Lockleaze areas We are constantly reviewing planned in Bristol. as well as further north into South • 01.00 Sat 25 April - 03.liO Mon 27 April projects to determine feasibility in terms of Gloucestershire at Filton Abbey Wood. • 01 .00 Sat 02 May - 03.liO Mon Oli May maintaining appropriate distance between workers and other essential measures The main focus will be between Constable This drainage work was planned to coincide needed to maintain safe work sites in the Road and Bonnington Walk where we will be with follow up work on otherj obs in the current situation. removing track stone with a suction wider Bristol/ area, t o excavator, repairing the drainage and reduce overall disruption to passengers. We will continue to closely monitor and replacing the stone. Engineering trains will assess these issues on an ongoing basis for transport materials and a tamper train will Alongside our work at Bristol East Junction, planned and live projects. pack the stone, which will be noisy. this is crucial maintenance to ensure the cont inued safe and smooth running of t he To keep up to date with our plans, see: We will be returning to our Dovercourt Road railway for essential passengers and freight. networkrail.co.uk/city-of-bristol compound for this work as, in response to It has been deemed safe to proceed in line the COVID-19 pandemic we require more with current Government guidelines on space for welfare and car parking facilities COVID-19.

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Bristol Partwaystation Travel advice Plans for a proposed new railway station for The station is being jointly funded by Bristol Is your journey necessary? During the the line, between City Council, the West of England Combined coronavirus outbreak, please only travel if Shirehampton and stations, are Authority and the . it is essential. moving forward. After planning permission was granted in Weekends of 25 & 26 April and 2 & 3 May: The station will be built by on March 2019, it is set to become the firstnew Coaches replace trains: behalf of , on land station built in the wider Bristol area since • between Bristol Temple Meads and adjacent to the existing Partway park and Filton Abbey Wood in 1996. Newport/Cardiff Central (not calling at ride site off the M. Bristol Parkway) This scheme forms part of the West of • between Bristol Parkway and Newport Funding for the scheme has been secured England's wider MetroWest programme. For and plans are in development with the aim more information see: travelwest.info/ Low-floor buses will also run: of starting work on site at the end of 2020 projects/ • between Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol and completion in 2021. Parkway • between Bristol Temple Meads and /Avonmouth/Severn Beach

A taxi will run between Bristol Parkway and Pilning (and back) on the Saturdays at 0805 and 1 LiOS.

Check before you travel at: www.nationalrail.co.uk www.GWR.com

Contact us If you have any questions about our work, contact our 2Li-hour helpline: 03Li5711 Li1Li1 Safety improvements at Bristol For more information about our work: networkrail.co.uk/city-of-bristol Temple Meads or Twitter: @NetworkRailWest

We have a number of projects in progress in due course we are planning to install new outside the entrance to Bristol Temple zebra crossings, along with speed bumps as Meads, aimed at improving general safety a trafficcalming measure to reduce the on Station Approach. speed of vehicles, to provide safer walking routes for pedestrians. Over two weeks, from 1 - 13 March, we completed work to repair and restore the We aim to install automatic number plate existing cobbles outside the entrance, to recognition (ANPR) to monitor and manage allow for safer walking access to and from trafficflow in and out of the station area. the station. Dates for additional work are to be The number of taxi permits for the station confirmed. is also being reviewed but remains at 250 until further notice.

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