Better Transport

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• Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways website

Traffic is a big problem in Bristol. We all suffer delay, pollution, noise, accidents and road rage. We all pay for expensive attempts to prevent all this. Yet Bristol fails to exploit an asset that would reduce traffic: our branch railways, neglected and disused, and our main line stations, obscure and dismantled, still make up a ready-to-use system other cities would envy, which might eventually be converted to light rail.

Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways (FOSBR) campaigns to:

• Defend services on the Severn Beach Railway
• Restore passenger services to Portishead, Pill, and Ashton, Chittening, Hallen and Henbury, Horfield and Ashley Down
• Increase services to Pilning, Patchway, Stapleton Road Lawrence Hill, Keynsham, Parson Street and Bedminster
• Improve connections with other railway lines and other forms of Public Transport

The group meets four times a year.

Latest News :

19 May 2008: The Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways celebrated an improved rail service on the Severn Beach Line.  Due to a £900,000 investment by the Bristol City Council the service will run more frequently on weekdays and will run on Sundays.  Read more. 

Our next meeting is on Saturday 12 April, 6pm, at Great Western Staff Club, Bristol. (Walk from Bristol Temple Meads Station down Approach Road to the metal rail on the right, then down the steps to the lobby.) The meeting ends in time for the 20:13 train.

Tuesday 15 January: FOSBR made a submission to 'State of the City' debate organised by Bristol City Council. See our website for details.