How do I get a taxi from Ashley Down station?

Two of these are exact published fares and one is an honest estimate, and the table says which is which.

*The airport row is a band, not a quote. BS7 is not on our published price list yet, so rather than invent a figure we have read it across from the areas next door that we do price: the city centre at £39 and Filton at £49. Your exact fixed price comes back from the quote form in a few seconds, and that number is the one that holds. The full method is on the fares by area page.

Saloon prices, for up to 4 passengers with 2 large cases. Estates, 6-seater MPVs and 8-seater minibuses carry more and cost more; the luggage and vehicle sizes page sets out which is which, and the quote form prices your actual trip.

Only a pair of accessible bays, so nobody can park and ride from this station. Your driver waits in the main pickup and drop-off area at the station, and confirms it with you when you book.

It is worth knowing before you plan around it. If a friend is dropping you off they are stopping on the street and going, not leaving the car for a week while you fly. If you were thinking of driving here to catch a train onward, you want Bristol Parkway, which has a large car park, rather than this one.

What the station does have is the things that make it pleasant to use: two platforms, a footbridge with lifts so it is step-free throughout, covered shelters on both sides, cycle parking at the entrance and a level route in. If you need a wheelchair accessible vehicle, book well ahead and read what we can and cannot offer on the accessible taxi page first.

Tell us straight away, and the driver moves with the train.

Two things we need from you, and they are the whole arrangement. Tell us which train you are on when you book, and tell us straight away if it is delayed. Your driver is timed to arrive when the train actually arrives, so a delay you do not pass on is a car sitting there for a train that is not coming.

Worth being straight about the numbers: a train pickup includes five minutes' free waiting, where our airport work includes flight tracking and 45 minutes. Five minutes is enough to walk off a platform and out of the building, and it is not enough to absorb a late train. That is the whole reason we ask you to tell us.

If you are going into central Bristol, do not book a taxi. Get the train.

Ashley Down runs an hourly service into Bristol Temple Meads, and it sits a few minutes' walk from the Gloucester Road corridor, which is one of the best-served bus routes in the city. For a trip into town, a car is the slowest way to spend the most money, and we would rather tell you that than take the booking.

Where we are worth calling is the journeys the local network handles badly: an early flight, a run to Heathrow or Gatwick, a cruise sailing, or any trip with real luggage and more than one person. The airport is the clearest case, because there is no railway station at Bristol Airport at all, so the public transport version is a train into Temple Meads and then the A1 Flyer bus, at £9.50 and around half an hour on top of the first leg.

Ashley Down opened on 28 September 2024, the first station here since the 1960s.

It serves Bishopston, Horfield and the Gloucester Road end of north Bristol, and it is managed by Great Western Railway on the hourly run between Temple Meads and Filton Abbey Wood. From autumn 2026 that service extends further up the reopened Henbury line, calling at the new Bristol Brabazon station, which makes Ashley Down an intermediate stop on a longer line rather than the end of a short branch.

Fares to the rest of the city are on the fares by area page, and there is every Bristol station compared side by side.

Tick Taxi is an independent private hire operator licensed by South Gloucestershire Council and Bristol City Council. All pickups are pre-booked. We are not affiliated with Great Western Railway, Network Rail or the station, and nothing here is an official station service. Station details from Network Rail, checked September 2026.