Rail Firm Had to Build a New Bridge and Raise the Height of Highway ; Footsteps Into History - Lawrence Hill

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LAWRENCE Hill railway station opened at the same time (1863) as the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway (BSWUR) which ran from Temple Meads to New Passage, where a ferry took passengers over to South Wales. This busy station originally had four tracks, two going between the current platforms and another two, disused and now lifted, bypassing the station. Now simply the first stop after TM on the domestic Severn Beach line, the old goods yard houses a supermarket and small industrial estate. In 1873 the Midland Railway company decided to build a large engine shed and sidings in Barrow Road, Lawrence Hill.

To do this the engineers were forced to build a new bridge and raise the height of the highway between Ducie Road and the Packhorse pub.

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Rail Firm Had to Build a New Bridge and Raise the Height of Highway ; Footsteps Into History - Lawrence Hill

A series of six arches with a new road on top left the Victorian shop fronts, and the pub, at the old road level below ground,...

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