Aerospace Bristol and the Clifton Bridge: 1/5/23
One would think that the people of Bristol would be sensible enough not to have two railway stations with nearly identical names, in similar places, on different railway lines to the north of the city, but they do; and it was only after I had arrived in Bristol Pathway instead of Bristol Patchway that I discovered my mistake. Getting here was something of an adventure in itself, since I got to the station just in time to miss the first train to Bristol Pathway -- the Cardiff train, incidentally -- and asked the station attendant where to catch the next one. He advised me to go to platform 5, which I did, but when I consulted Google it suggested the next train on Platform 3. So I returned to platform 3, and a few minutes later they announced that the train from there would be cancelled due to a 'problem' in the Severn Tunnel. So my question is: did he know about the problem ten minutes in advance of the announcement, or was he just wrong? Anyway, there was only five minutes di