In this week's The Architecture the Railways Built, Tim Dunn visits one of our most stunning stations –Bristol Temple Meads.
Historian and presenter Tim explores the station from top to bottom, exploring parts of the station he’s never seen before.
He looks at how this Grade I listed building has grown over the years and is given special access to engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s old mock Tudor station and boardroom. Tim also climbs onto the roof of the train shed and even uncovers an architectural controversy …
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Historic renovation
In September, we and train operatorGreat Western Railway庆祝布里斯托尔寺米德斯的180岁生日，特别是尊重其历史性的过去，并期待其光明的未来。它来了，因为我们准备了车站的多百万磅重新装修。
布里斯托尔寺庙米德斯大量的布鲁内尔的原始建筑，成为了西区的铁路门户。该站于1840年8月31日和几十年开幕，马修·普瓦特Wyatt，Percy Culverhouse和Francis Fox每年都增加了延伸。
最近几个月，我们一直在更新车站，恢复我列出的维多利亚式屋顶的等级。
两年的计划将涉及广泛的金属和木工维修，以及屋顶和平台檐篷的完全重新覆盖，以及一种新的配色方案。它是更广泛的工作方案的一部分，包括在车站外部的重新结合。这将在未来允许更频繁的服务在布里斯托尔运行。
Mike Gallop, route managing director of our Western route, said in September: “The station has been a gateway for millions of passengers commuting to work, visiting family or going on holiday for 180 years and remains one the most iconic stations in the entire country.
“We’re now modernising the station to improve facilities for every person that steps through the doors so it can be a Bristol icon for generations to come.”
由Brunel设计的原始布里斯托尔站在柚子铎风格中，就像原版伦敦帕丁顿站一样，该站仅包括抵达和出发平台。
It opened with trains running from Bristol as far as Bath, almost a year before the start of through traffic to London. The station buildings had a boardroom and offices for the ‘Bristol Committee’ of the Great Western Railway.
三家铁路公司的交通和需求开始大约1840年的原始的1840年结构，但直到1865年才获得了一项法案，以便重建寺庙米德，以满足所有三家公司的需求。在哥特式风格的设计，由Matthew Digby Wyatt进行，他在1850年代辅助布鲁内尔与“新”帕丁顿站。
Construction of the new Bristol Temple Meads began in 1871. Separate entrances and corresponding booking offices, with the names of the railway companies engraved in stone above them, were provided for each of the three companies. However, before the station fully opened the GWR and B&ER had amalgamated.
The first section of the station opened on 6 July 1874 and the full station, with a total of seven platforms, on 1 January 1878. An additional platform was added in 1898.
Read more history about Bristol Temple Meads.
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Bristol Temple Meads takes its name from the land upon which it was built. In the 12th and 13th centuries this was owned by the Knights Templar.
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