CHURCHILL BRIDGE JUNCTION


The Oldfield Park and Combe Down routes leave the City Centre Circle at the junction of Dorchester Street and Southgate. They cross the river by means of the footbridge which was built with the same patterns as the Churchill Bridge and would need little modification to carry trams of less than 16 tonnes weight.. Alternatively a new tram-only bridge would add £ 0.5 million to the total construction costs.
Additional traffic signals would be needed at two places on the one-way traffic system to allow trams to cross onto the grass reservation beside the railway viaduct.

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Oldfield Park trams would run along the northern side of the viaduct, re-crossing the one-way system and passing behind the remaining Georgian building of the Lower Bristol Road. Cutting diagonally through land at present occupied by a car washing facility, the trams would run along the centre of the Lower Bristol Road in the direction of the Green Tree public house.
The diversion behind the Georgian house would allow inbound trams to by-pass some of the traffic which tails back from the one-way system.

The Combe Down tram, on reaching the railway viaduct would pass through the now disused arch which used to carry the old alignment of the Wells Road. It would continue along the grass reservation on the south side of the railway, re-cross the one-way system and proceed up a ramp on the alignment of the old Wells Road (which is now a car park) to join the present Wells Road outside the Railway Inn public house.


Upper Weston

Hospitals

Lansdown (P+R)

Larkhall

Batheaston,

Bathford

Newbridge (P+R)

Western Riverside

 City Centre Circle

Churchill
Bridge

( Lambridge P+R?)

Bathampton

Twerton

Oldfield Park

Bear Flat

Bathwick

University
(P+R)

Whiteway

Southdown

Odd Down (P+R)

Combe Down

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