These were the scenes at Ashley Down Station as locals and train enthusiasts celebrate the first train in 60 years

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The much-anticipated Ashley Down Station has officially opened to the public.  Locals and train enthusiasts gathered this morning (September 28) to celebrate the first train at the station in 60 years.  These were their reactions.

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00:00We're just outside of the new Ashley Down station, where local residents and train enthusiasts

00:05have gathered this morning to celebrate the first train in 60 years to arrive at the station.

00:14The sheer number of people on the train and the sheer number of people on the platform

00:18when we got to Ashley Down shows people's excitement for trains. People have come with

00:25their children to show them the train arriving. It seems that people have made it an important

00:35aspect of the day, which is really encouraging. The thing that's most noticeable about today

00:42is you can go lots of places and there might be one age group, one demographic. We've got

00:49quite a wide age spectrum on this platform today. There's old people, there's young people,

00:55there's people in between. So it just proves that it is a station for everyone to use,

01:00I think, and a station that Bristol should be proud of.

01:04So first journey filled with lots of joy and excitement from lots of other enthusiasts.

01:08Of course lots of locals as well who came out quite early in the morning to catch the

01:12first train. Everything went smoothly. I don't think there were any delays, which is very

01:16good for Britain's railway. So I think it's a success, honestly. It's all gone very well

01:24and hopefully lots of people will use this station in the next few days and will benefit

01:32from the station.

01:33This station is brilliant. Even though it is a cookie cutter station, I've just spoken

01:38to someone from the design team and the challenges that were faced in the construction of this

01:45station were just... I think it's incredible that they managed to overcome all of this.

01:51It's nice to see that it is fully disability accessible and so on with lifts and stuff.

01:59So often you find stations that don't have that and there's also Braille signs as well

02:06on the stairs up. So it is quite an accessible station. It's quite a cookie cutter in design.

02:16So obviously it's lacking the character of the previous station, obviously because that

02:20was bulldozed. But a station's a station and I hope that for the local community it's very

02:25much beneficial since there's so many houses and stuff around here. I'm sure it'll be very

02:32well used.

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