A Shirehampton pupil has won an art competition to design a birthday card to celebrate the first Birthday of Bristol’s newest railway station.

Amelie Graveney (age 9) handed a supersized version of her birthday card to Mayor Dan Norris today at Portway Park & Ride’s Birthday Bash. (Friday 2 August 2024).

Her winning card features a distinctive green GWR train plus Birthday balloons. 

Mayor Dan Norris said:

“Congratulations Amelie! What a great design and how fantastic it is to be celebrating this station’s birthday today. Encouraging more people onto trains and out of cars is so important in a time of climate emergency.”

Amelie said:

“It feels really nice to have my design on a poster because I haven’t won anything like this before. My Year 5 teacher was really proud of me when I told her. I couldn’t believe it when I was told I’d won!”

Portway Park & Ride officially opened on 1 August 2023, becoming the first station to open in Bristol in almost a century. 

Delivered as part of Mayor Dan Norris’s commitment to build new stations across the West of England, the station now runs services seven days a week along the Severn Beach railway line, allowing passengers to reach the centre of Bristol in just 24 minutes.

The next station due to be completed is Ashley Down later this year.

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