Editing Bristol (section)

=== Rail ===
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Bristol has two principal railway stations. [[Bristol Temple Meads]] (near the city centre) has [[Great Western Railway (train operating company)|Great Western Railway]] services which include high-speed trains to [[London Paddington]] and local, regional and [[CrossCountry]] trains. [[Bristol Parkway]], north of the city in Gloucestershire, but within the conurbation, has high-speed Great Western Railway services to [[Swansea railway station|Swansea]], [[Cardiff Central railway station|Cardiff Central]] and London Paddington, and CrossCountry services reaching [[Birmingham New Street railway station|Birmingham]], [[Manchester Piccadilly railway station|Manchester]] and [[Edinburgh Waverley railway station|Edinburgh]]. A limited service to [[London Waterloo]], via [[Clapham Junction]] used to operate, from Temple Meads was operated by [[South Western Railway]] this service stopped in December 2021 because of a shortage of train drivers and there are scheduled coach links to most major UK cities.<ref name="progrep">{{Cite web |title=West of England Joint Local Transport Plan 3 2O11&nbsp;– 2O26 |url=http://travelplus.org.uk/media/205985/jltp3%20march%202011.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416183307/http://travelplus.org.uk/media/205985/jltp3%20march%202011.pdf |archive-date=16 April 2014 |access-date=29 March 2014 |publisher=West of England Partnership}}</ref>
[[File:Bristol Temple Meads station (6466232797).jpg|thumb|left|[[Bristol Temple Meads railway station|Bristol Temple Meads station]]]]

Bristol's principal surviving suburban railway is the [[Severn Beach Line]] to Avonmouth and [[Severn Beach]]. Although [[Portishead Railway]]'s passenger service was a casualty of the [[Beeching cuts]], freight service to the Royal Portbury Dock was restored from 2000 to 2002 with a [[Strategic Rail Authority]] rail-freight grant. The [[MetroWest (Bristol)|MetroWest]] scheme, formerly known as The Greater Bristol Metro, proposes to increase the city's rail capacity<ref>{{Cite web |title=Greater Bristol Metro |url=http://www.westofengland.org/media/98508/item%2004%20greater%20bristol%20metro%2013%20march%202009.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515034151/http://www.westofengland.org/media/98508/item%2004%20greater%20bristol%20metro%2013%20march%202009.pdf |archive-date=15 May 2011 |access-date=20 September 2009 |publisher=West of England Partnership}}</ref> including the restoration of a further {{cvt|3|mi|km|0}} of track on the [[Portishead Railway|line]] to [[Portishead, Somerset|Portishead]] (a [[dormitory town]] with one connecting road), and a further commuter rail line from [[Bristol Temple Meads]] to [[Henbury, Bristol|Henbury]], on an [[Henbury Loop Line|existing freight line]]. Following numerous delays, the two lines are due to be opened in 2026.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-63633295.amp |title=Portishead to Bristol rail line gets final approval |website=[[BBC]] |date=15 November 2022 |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-63454402.amp |title=Bristol YTL Arena inaccessible by train until 2026 |website=[[BBC]] |date=31 October 2022 |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>