The Great Western Main Line Through Bath Spa Station
This Google Map shows the route of the Great Western Main Line through Bath Spa station.
Trains from Bristol come in from the West with London to the East and the layout certainly wasn’t designed to be simple.
- Bath Spa station is on a viaduct hemmed in by the river.
- The railway crosses the River Avon twice.
- The railway is on a raised viaduct to the West.
- Bath is a World Heritage Site.
It is not the place, where you would want to electrify a major railway Line.
These are pictures I took of the Great Western Main Line through Bath.
It is certainly not how, you would create a railway today.

















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