Brizzle Kicks

For reasons far too dull to go into here, I found myself in Bristol with some hours to kill. How many hours? I didn't really know. It could be two, it could be four, it all depended on when I got a phone call. I needed something to keep me busy but not an extreme voyage of discovery.Readers with long memories might remember that I've been to Bristol before, back in 2016, when I was thinking of turning this blog into a book of some kind. That didn't happen. I did travel round the country, though, and one of the lines I visited was the Severn Beach Line, which goes from Temple Meads along the coast. This is what the line diagram looked when I visited:And this is what it looks like now:Why, there's a whole new station on there! (And also Weston-Super-Mare, but for the purposes of this blog, we're ignoring that). Portway Park & Ride opened in 2023, which meant if I visited there, I'd complete the whole line once again. (I repeat: ignore Weston-Super-Mare. It's got a thinner green line, if…