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This cache belongs to the SideTracked series. It is not designed to take you to a magical place with a breath taking view. It's a distraction for the weary traveller, but anyone else can go and find it too. More Information can be found at the SideTracked Website
Pill railway station was a railway station on the Portishead Branch Line, 7.8 miles west of Bristol Temple Meads, serving the village of Pill in North Somerset. The station was opened by the Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway Company on 18 April 1867. It had two platforms, on either side of a passing loop, with a goods yard and signal box later additions. Services increased until the 1930s, at which point a half-hourly service operated. However the Portishead Branch was recommended for closure by the Beeching report, and the station was closed on 7 September 1964.
The station is due to be reopened to passenger traffic as part of MetroWest, a scheme to increase rail services in the Bristol area. The new station will have a single platform, an accessible footbridge and a car park, with trains running between Portishead and Bristol (see above picture).
The cache is not near the location of the old station. However at the posted coordinates you can walk along Station Road, past the old Station House to two adjacent bridges which cross over the railway track. A few minutes from here you can walk under the Pill Viaduct (above picture) which passes over the village.
The cache can be found at:
N51 ((NIGHTINGALE VALLEY HALT - PORTISHEAD PIER) - (AVONMOUTH - PORTISHEAD PIER) - 1).
(CLIFTON BRIDGE - HAM GREEN HALT) (PORTISHEAD - PILL) (PILL - PORTBURY)
W02 (HAM GREEN HALT - PORTBURY SHIPYARD)
(CLIFTON BRIDGE - PORTBURY) (PORTSHEAD - PILL) (HOTWELLS HALT - ASHTON GATE PLATFORM)
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