从伦敦到布里斯托尔的伟大西式铁路的主要线的西际终点。
Bristol Temple Meads station has undergone many changes as it outgrew Brunel’s original building and became the railway gateway to the West Country.
由I K Brunel设计的原始布里斯托尔站是“嘲弄铎”风格，如原来的帕丁顿站，一个终结，包括仅仅是抵达和出发平台。
It opened on 31 August 1840 with trains running from Bristol as far as Bath, nearly 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.
- 1835年：8月31日，伟大的西方铁路被议会的行为授权，在伦敦和布里斯托尔之间建立铁路线。
- 1840年: 31 August, Brunel’s Tudor style Bristol Temple Meads Station is opened as the western terminus of the Great Western Railway.
- 1841年：6月30日，伟大的西式铁路伦敦到布里斯托尔的主线。布里斯托尔和埃克塞尔铁路开始使用布里斯托尔寺庙米德为其服务。
- 1844年: The Bristol and Gloucester Railway (part of the Midland Railway from 1845) begins to use Bristol Temple Meads for its services.
- 1845年: The Bristol & Exeter Railway opens its own temporary station and platforms at right angles to the GWR station.
- 1854年：布里斯托尔和埃克塞尔铁路在同一地点开设其永久站办公室。这是通过S C Fripp的Jacobean风格设计的。
- 1865年: The main GWR station becomes jointly run by the Great Western and Midland railway companies.
- 1871- 1876: Bristol Temple Meads Station expanded as through Station.
- 1878年：1月1日，马修码头Wyatt的布里斯托尔联合站是在哥特式风格设计的。
- 1892年: 20 May, the last of the GWR broad gauge tracks are lifted.
- 1930-1935: Bristol Temple Meads Station is enlarged.
- 1965年: 12 September, the original Brunel terminus at Temple Meads is closed.
- 2009年: The electrification of London (Paddington) – Bristol – South Wales is announced.
1841年，广泛的规格布里斯托尔和埃克塞尔铁路也开始进入布里斯托尔寺米德斯的服务，这是一种弯曲的线，使他们的火车能够跑到车站。然而，与伟大的西方铁路共享车站的局限性意味着B＆ER于1845年在GWR建筑角度地开启了自己的临时站。
A permanent structure, built in a Jacobean style was opened by the B&ER in 1854. In 1844 the Midland Railway also began to run into Bristol, having taken over the Bristol & Gloucester Railway.
A new joint station
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.
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As a major gateway to the West Country, Bristol Temple Meads became increasingly congested with holiday traffic, particularly in the years immediately after World War 1. In 1929 the GWR took advantage of interest free government loans to double Temple Meads in size, increasing the number of platforms from nine to fifteen.
由P G Culverhouse设计的这一延伸始于1930年11月，于1935年12月完成。
The original Brunel train shed functioned for 125 years until its closure on 12 September 1965. His mock hammer beam roof, built of wood to emulate Westminster Hall in London, can still be seen as part of the car park at today’s station.
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布里斯托尔寺米德斯从建造的土地上取得了名字。在12世纪和第13世纪，这是由骑士圣殿骑士所拥有的。