Although the railway line from Temple Meads to Avonmouth was opened in 1885, it was not until April 1897 that a station was built at Redland
The building seen here is the original waiting room, although it has now been taken over by a local company. The entrance is not all that easy to find either, Back in the late sixties they built houses and garages between the station and Zetland Road which means that you have to cross the (private) car park to get to the station.
Like most of the stations on the line it has only a single track nowadays, but I remember there being double tracks (and building on both sides) from the sixties. Now it's just bushes and then a park.
The footbridge over the railway used to have a roof on it and there was a booking office and stairs down to the two platforms (in the style of Bristol Parkway - though Redland's bridge was much nicer). Kids on their way to Cotham Grammar School would use the bridge rather than the pavement by the road bridge, and if you were lucky you saw a train. (You have to be even luckier these days!).