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Up to March 2024, Toolstation had continued to grow its UK market share, opening 163 new Toolstation branches between 2020 and 2022, and adding seven more in 2023. However, its mainland Europe stores were doing less well, and Travis Perkins announced Toolstation was quitting France and reviewing its operations in Netherlands and Belgium. [11]
The 2005 survey showed that day visitors stay in Weston-super-Mare for an average of six hours whilst overnight visitors stay for an average of five nights. The largest percentage of visitors (22%) were from the West Midlands. Weston was found to attract two distinct groups: "grey tourists" over the age of 60 and families with young children. [90]
In April 2021, a two-hourly Sunday and public holiday service was introduced for the summer months. [3]In April 2022, the route was revised to terminate at the new bus interchange in Weston-super-Mare instead of terminating at the sea front on Marine Parade.
The route starts at Marine Parade on the seafront in Weston-super-Mare. Leaving Weston, the route follows the B3440 Locking Road to its end at the A370 at Worle. It then briefly joins the A370 before joining the M5 northbound towards Clevedon.
A serious incident occurred on 17 October 2004, when Wessex Trains Class 143 Pacer DMU number 143613, forming the 20:06 2W63 service from Bristol Temple Meads to Weston-super-Mare with unit number 143621, caught fire between the site of the former station at Flax Bourton and Nailsea & Backwell. Fire services took two hours to get the blaze ...
Weston-super-Mare is the busiest RNLI station on the south side of the Bristol Channel; in 2011 its two lifeboats were called out 42 times. [63] Historically, the largest number of people rescued at one time was on 22 September 1884 when 40 passengers were taken off the SS Welsh Prince which got into difficulties after leaving the pier. [58]
A replica of the locomotive North Star at the site of the first station. The Bristol and Exeter Railway arrived in Weston-super-Mare on 14 June 1841. This was not the route that serves today's station, but rather a single-track branch line from Weston Junction railway station, midway between the present-day Worle and Uphill junctions, which terminated at a small station in Regent Street close ...
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