Planners could give the go-ahead for a new train station in a village in South Gloucestershire next week. Charfield lies on the railway running from Bristol to Gloucester but has been left without a station for almost 60 years, although that could soon change.
The £22-million station would be built off Station Road in the centre of the village, with two platforms, a pedestrian footbridge, a bus stop, covered cycle parking, and car parking. The village’s old train station shut in 1965 as part of the Beeching cuts, when many stations across the country closed.
Once opened, villagers could catch the train at least every hour to Bristol Parkway in 18 minutes, Bristol Temple Meads in 32 minutes, and Gloucester in 22 minutes. Councillors on South Gloucestershire Council’s strategic sites delivery committee on Thursday, March 2, will vote on approving planning permission for the new train station.
