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Friday 31 Oct 2025

Train services resume between Bristol and Bath following track work through St Anne’s tunnel

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Wales & Western: Western

| Wales & Western

Network Rail’s four-day track replacement between Bristol and Bath is complete. On Monday (27 October) engineers began work installing new rail, sleepers and stone through St Anne’s tunnel, working around the clock and finishing the job in the early hours of this morning (Friday 31 October), as planned.

At any one time up to 65 people were out on track to carry out the work which involved installation of over a kilometre of rail, 5,000 tonnes of stone and 1,565 sleepers.

Throughout the work buses replaced trains between Bristol Temple Meads and Bath Spa stations. Additional track maintenance and work was also carried out at other locations along the line.

Mark Parker, lead portfolio manager for Network Rail, said: “This work has been a vital piece of maintenance to ensure the continued safe and reliable running of train services on the busy mainline between Bristol and Bath.

“While we do our best to keep disruption to a minimum there is inevitably an impact on rail passengers and also potentially for residents. I’d therefore like to thank everyone for their patience while this work was completed.”

Oana Apetroaie, GWR station manager for Bath Spa and Chippenham, said: “We’re pleased that train services are now running again between Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads and thank customers for their patience.

“These track works help support the reliability of a key section of the railway for the region, helping people to travel sustainably.”