Editing Bath, Somerset (section)

===Railways===
[[File:2008 at Bath Spa station - view from Widecombe.jpg|thumb|Bath Spa station]]

The city is served by [[Bath Spa railway station]], designed by [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]], which is on the [[Great Western Main Line]]. Services are provided by [[Great Western Railway (train operating company)|Great Western Railway]] on the following routes:<ref> {{Cite web |work=Great Western Railway |title=Train Times |date=15 December 2024 |access-date=4 April 2025 |url= https://www.gwr.com/travel-information/train-times}}</ref>
* {{rws|London Paddington}} to {{rws|Bristol Temple Meads}}, {{rws|Weston-super-Mare}} and {{rws|Taunton}}
* Bristol Temple Meads to {{rws|Salisbury}}
* Bristol Temple Meads to {{rws|Frome}}
* {{rws|Portsmouth Harbour}} to {{rws|Cardiff Central}}
* {{rws|Gloucester}} to {{rws|Westbury}}.

There is a suburban station on the main line, {{rws|Oldfield Park}}, which has a limited commuter service to Bristol.

[[Bath Green Park railway station|Bath Green Park station]] was once the terminus of the [[Midland Railway]],<ref>[http://www.bristolbathrailwaypath.org.uk/theoldrailway.shtml Bristol and Bath Railway Path: ''The Midland Railway''] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111128175422/http://www.bristolbathrailwaypath.org.uk/theoldrailway.shtml |date=28 November 2011 }}. Retrieved 8 August 2009</ref> and junction for the [[Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway]], whose line, always steam hauled, went through the Devonshire tunnel (under the Wellsway, St Luke's Church and the Devonshire Arms), through the [[Combe Down Tunnel]] and climbed over the [[Mendips]] to serve many towns and villages on its {{convert|71|mi|km|0|adj=on}} run to [[Bournemouth]]. This example of an English rural line was closed as part of the [[Beeching cuts]] in March 1966. Its Bath station building, now restored, houses shops, small businesses, a Saturday farmers' market and parking for a supermarket, while the route of the Somerset and Dorset through the suburbs to [[Midford]] has been reused for the [[Two Tunnels Greenway]], a shared use path that extends [[National Cycle Route 24]] into the city.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bath, Two Tunnels |url=http://www.sustrans.org.uk/news/thousands-join-us-celebrate-opening-two-tunnels-greenway-bath |publisher=Sustrans |access-date=3 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505003713/http://www.sustrans.org.uk/news/thousands-join-us-celebrate-opening-two-tunnels-greenway-bath |archive-date=5 May 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>