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Railway station in Gloucestershire, England

Patchway railway station is on the South Wales Main Line, serving the town of Patchway and village of Stoke Gifford in South Gloucestershire, England. It is 6 mile (10 km) from Its three letter station code is PWY. It is managed by Great Western Railway, who provide all train services at the station; there is generally a train every hour in each direction between and
The station was opened by the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway in 1863 with a single platform, 0.5 mile (1 km) west of the current location, but was resited in 1885 when the line was widened to double track. The station once had large buildings and a goods yard, but these were demolished in the late 20th century, with small brick shelters built in their place. The line through Patchway has recently been electrified as part of the 21st century modernisation of the Great Western Main Line.

Patchway railway station is located in the Patchway area of South Gloucestershire, within the Bristol conurbation. There is a large Rolls Royce industrial area to the west of the station, while the area to the north and east is primarily residential. To the south is a large amount of railway land, including the Filton Triangle depot. The station is on the South Wales Main Line between and , and just off the Cross Country Route north of and the east end of the Henbury Loop Line. It is 5 mile (8 km) from and 114 mile (183 km) from via Bristol Parkway. The station is just north of Patchway Junctions 1 and 2, where the lines from Bristol Parkway, Filton Abbey Wood and Henbury converge. The station is on a rough north–south alignment, curving towards the west at the north end. Platform 1, on the east side of the station and adjacent to the Up Tunnel track, is for trains towards Filton Abbey Wood and Bristol Parkway. Platform 2, on the west side and adjacent to the Down Tunnel track, is for trains towards Pilning. Both platforms are long, and the tracks have a speed limit of The line through Patchway has a loading gauge of W8, and handles over 15 million train tonnes per year. It is not electrified, though it is planned to be electrified as part of the 21st century modernisation of the Great Western Main Line. Facilities at the station are minimal – there are small brick shelters on each platform, but no facilities for buying tickets.

Patchway is managed by Great Western Railway, which operates all services from the station. Throughout each day, Great Western Railway services between and South Wales pass through non stop, with two trains per hour in each direction on weekdays and one train per hour at weekends. All trains southbound call next at , and almost every train westbound calls next at Despite being the next station along the South Wales Main Line, there is only one weekday service which calls at both Patchway and , that being an early morning service from Taunton to Cardiff; there are only two trains per week which call at both Patchway and
The standard journey time to Bristol Temple Meads is 13 minutes and 45 minutes to Cardiff Central. Patchway was 6 mile (10 km) from Temple Meads, adjacent to the Bristol to Gloucester road, what is now the A38 Gloucester Road. The BSWUR was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway (GWR), which had from the beginning operated all BSWUR services, in 1868; in 1873, the line was converted to 1435 standard gauge. The new station opened on 10 August 1885, and was originally known as Patchway & Stoke Gifford, but reverted to Patchway from 27 October 1908. The station was on a north–south alignment and had two platforms, separated by two running lines, with a third line, a goods loop, behind the western platform. There was a goods yard to the south of the station on the eastern side, with an adjacent signal box. As now, the eastern platform was for trains towards Bristol, the western platform for trains towards Wales. The station buildings were of a standard 1880s GWR design, with tall chimneys and fretted wooden canopies. The main building was on the eastern platform, containing the booking office, toilets and waiting rooms. A matching brick shelter with canopy was built on the western platform. The eastern platform also had a bicycle house at the northern end. The station did not have a dedicated approach road, as it was adjacent to a road connecting Gloucester Road to the west and Gypsy Patch Lane to the south; this road subsequently became known as Station Road. At the time of construction, the station was mostly surrounded by fields, with the Bristol conurbation almost 3 mile (5 km) away. In 1900, almost all trains from London to Wales travelled via Bath and Bristol, with some still routed via However, the final 15 mile (24 km) to Bristol were relatively slow and congested, so a new route was built further north; the GWR's Badminton Line, now part of the South Wales Main Line, ran from Wootton Bassett Junction to a junction just south of Patchway. The new line opened in 1903 and allowed faster services to Wales. There was a new triangular junction between Patchway and Filton, with the new line coming in from the east. As part of the work, the station signal box was closed, replaced by a larger one closer to the junction on 19 October 1902. The new signal box would later become one of only a few to be double glazed, due to the noise from jet engine testing from the Bristol Siddeley Aero Engines factory (now the Rolls Royce factory) opposite the box. In 1949, there were 11 trains towards South Wales and 13 towards Bristol each weekday, with three trains per day in each direction on Sundays. However, by 1965, this had reduced to eight trains on weekdays towards South Wales and six towards Bristol, with no Sunday service. Traffic levels fell; the station was closed to goods traffic on 5 July 1965 and subsequently had all staff withdrawn on 14 October 1968. The goods loop was taken up and the station buildings demolished, replaced by small brick shelters. The structure of the footbridge remained, but the roof was removed. The goods yard was repurposed as vehicle storage. Avon was disbanded in 1996, with the region now governed by South Gloucestershire council. British Rail was split into business led sectors in the 1980s; at which time, operations at Patchway passed to Regional Railways. When the railway was privatised in 1997, local services were franchised to Wales & West, which was succeeded by Wessex Trains in 2001. The Wessex franchise was amalgamated with the Great Western franchise into the Greater Western franchise from 2006 and responsibility passed to First Great Western that was later rebranded as Great Western Railway in 2015. From December 2006, Virgin CrossCountry began operating a single daily service from Newcastle to Cardiff Central, via Bristol Temple Meads and Patchway. This service was taken over by Arriva CrossCountry when the CrossCountry franchise changed hands in 2007, and then replaced by a daily service each direction between Cardiff Central and
Since the mid 2000s, the Severnside Community Rail Partnership have been working to enhance Patchway station. One of the first acts was installing new community notice boards. A local working group was formed to adopt the station and the group negotiated with Rolls Royce to use their CCTV system to cover the station. A successful bid was made to the Department for Transport's Access for All scheme, which provided for improved signage, lighting and seats. A station garden was created in partnership with nearby Patchway Community College and two decorative mosaics were installed. The disused railway land adjacent to the station was cleared through a Community Payback scheme. rail line|col=|hide2=yes|previous=|rows1=3|route= Great Western Railway<small>Bristol & South Wales Union Line(1903–1948) However, the lines to Weston super Mare and Southampton will not be electrified in the near future, so services at Patchway will still be provided by diesel trains, with Sprinter units to be replaced by and Turbo units. The group Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways supports the electrification continuing to Weston, as does MP for Weston super Mare John Penrose.