Bristol is to get a new railway station after the Government gave the plan financial backing as part of a multi-million pound tranche of funding to boost transport links across the country.
Portway Parkway will receive some of the £20m put towards building new stations in areas that were particularly affected by the Beeching railway cuts of the 1960s.
It will be the first time that a new railway station has been built in the Bristol in more than 20 years.
The station will have only one platform and will have also have a 270-space car park, with easy access to the Portway park-and-ride.
Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris said: "Disused railway stations have been emblematic of left behind towns for too long.
"The vast number of passengers already using new stations funded by government is proof of the importance of investing in new connections.
"This new funding will both restore local stations to their former glory, and build even more new ones, establishing vital links for communities and levelling up the country for everyone.”
Planning permission for the new station, which is on the Severn Beach line, was granted by Bristol City Council in March 2019, but the project has been in the pipeline for years.
The move forms part of the government's wider £500m strategy to reverse the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, which saw many stations and miles of railway close.
In Bristol, there are about 13 railway stations that were closed as a result of the cuts, including one almost directly under Clifton Suspension Bridge.
