{"id":8393,"date":"2024-10-02T01:29:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T01:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/ashley-hill-ashley-down-3\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T01:29:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T01:29:10","slug":"ashley-hill-ashley-down-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/ashley-hill-ashley-down-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Hill : Ashley Down (3)"},"content":{"rendered":"
An Explore Before …<\/span><\/p>\n At the bottom of the hill, Station Road veers sharp right to a dead end (with the fence, remember?). Here the ever probing eye of the Google satellite shows a pathway leading direct to the logo for the new station.<\/p><\/div>\n The path leads to a tunnel under the tracks, but before plunging into the dark and dismal depths, you have a choice of a right hand or left hand turn.\u00a0<\/p>\n It is a series of linked footpaths and side roads which leads, eventually, to the development on Filton Airfield, the one-time home of Concorde. The start of the route is at the top of Hopetoun Road, itself accessed by the graffiti tunnel on Mina Road “visited” by fbb yesterday.<\/p><\/div>\n … just as the pathway ran alongside the old Ashley Hill Station.<\/p>\n It has been upgraded with dire warnings about mowing down passengers entering and leaving the new station.<\/p>\n The station entrance\/exit is next to the pathway under the tunnel but now much more spectacular.<\/p>\n Quite a motorway style junction!<\/p>\n The hi-vis suits are actually at the gate to the station.<\/p><\/div>\n Access from the east is via Station Lane …<\/p><\/div>\n … which is not the most inviting approach to the new station.<\/p><\/div>\n … with a wider aerial view showing all sorts of pathways and tracks in the area.<\/p>\n Whether at least one of these led up to an eastern entrance to the old station before the Filton route went four track, is not certain – wll not to fbb, anyay.<\/p><\/div>\n Like most of these new-built “halts” (because that is how the real GWR would have named them) …<\/p>\n … some of whom\u00a0actually travelled<\/span> all the way (just one stop) to Filton Abbey Wood …<\/p><\/div>\n It has a timetable poster …<\/p>\n Fair enough, but the machine does not take cash, so really great for those without bank cards, on line bank acounts or apps for crypto currency!<\/p><\/div>\n