A scene that has changed very little today from when I took this picture in 1979. The frontage at Bath Spa taken at 20.00 reveals a quiet scene with just three cars at the front of the station. To the far left is a Mk. IV Ford Cortina, then a two-door Triumph Toledo and finally, complete with a surf board on the roof a Hillman Hunter. Bath Spa station was built in 1840 for the Great Western Railway by Brunel and is a grade II listed. It is in an asymmetrical Tudor style with curving gables located on the north bank of the River Avon. It was opened on 31 August 1840 and named Bath but was renamed Bath Spa in 1949 to distinguish it from Bath Green Park station, which did not have its name altered from Bath until 1951.
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