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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]
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]
Worle railway station is located in the east of Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset serving the suburbs of Worle, West Wick and St Georges.The surrounding area is primarily residential, but with several commercial developments, including the Worle Parkway office development next to the station.
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 ...
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 ...
The station closed to passengers on 5 October 1964, but goods traffic continued until 8 May the next year. The site is now occupied by Cullompton Services for the adjacent M5 motorway. There is land allocated for re-opening a station at Cullompton but forecast demand is relatively low and so the proposal is for the longer term. [18]
Badgerline Leyland Olympians 8613 in Badgerline livery and 8609 in Cheddar Showcaves advertising livery in 1995. On 13 May 1902, the Weston-super-Mare Tramways opened a tramway along the sea front from the Sanatorium at the south end of the Beach Lawns (today the site of Royal Sands) to the Old Pier, using a mixture of double-deck open top tram cars and open-sided "toast rack" single-deck cars ...
The present home of Weston Museum is the former industrial premises of the Weston Gaslight Company. [1] It is a Grade II listed building. [11] [7] It was designed and built by local architects Hans Fowler Price and William Jane in 1912 to house the company's stores and distribution workshops, incorporating an existing stable yard in its construction.