Oldfield Park
Oldfield Park 
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| Location | |
| Place | Bath |
| Local authority | District of Bath and North East Somerset |
| Coordinates | 51°22′45″N 2°22′51″W / 51.3792°N 2.3807°WCoordinates: 51°22′45″N 2°22′51″W / 51.3792°N 2.3807°W |
| Grid reference | ST736645 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | OLF |
| Managed by | Great Western Railway |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2012/13 |
 0.282 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.306 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.313 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.315 million |
| 2016/17 |
 0.313 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Great Western Railway |
| 1929 | Opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Oldfield Park from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Oldfield Park railway station is on the Great Western Main Line in South West England, serving the mainly residential areas of southern Bath, Somerset. It is 107 miles 72 chains (173.6 km) down-line from London Paddington and is situated between Bath Spa and Keynsham stations.
It is managed by Great Western Railway, which also operates most of the trains that call. South Western Railway operate a limited number of services. The station is located at the junction of Brook Road and Moorland Road; the Brook Road bridge links the two platforms.
It opened in 1929, though the line through the site had opened in 1840.
Oldfield Park was the third station to be constructed in Bath on the G.W.R. line. It is the only station whose platforms are below the surrounding road levels, all the rest of Bath's G.W.R. stations are elevated. The Railway line divides Bath's road systems into two distinct areas.
Many new road bridges were necessary to overcome the difficulty posed to local goods traffic by this new railway. The Station is located between two such road bridges, one to the east is called Brougham Hayes bridge. It was originally built on the Tudor arch style of local stone. It was later demolished and replaced with a widened steel and stone structure. This occurred in the early 20th century when an extra line to a goods yard was laid to the end of the westbound platform. Brook Road bridge adjoins the station a short distance to the west.
The majority of Brunel's design for Bath was raised up on a system of earth embankments and stone arches. His objective in all his designs were to maintain his "billiard table" design philosophy. The main obstacle was a skew bridge crossing of the River Avon to link with the main Bath Spa station in the centre of the City. At the approach to the Oldfield Park section a cutting was necessary to maintain the desired level. It was into these cutting embankments that the two platforms were later accommodated.
To some extent Oldfield Park replaced an earlier station at Twerton, three-quarters of a mile to the west, which had closed, ostensibly temporarily, in the First World War and which had been badly affected by competing bus and tram services. The Twerton station never reopened.
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