Land taken out of the Green Belt at Portbury could get the Portishead Railway project back on track , according to one campaigner.
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Alistair Lindsay , aged 22 , of Clevedon , said the site near junction 19 of the M5 could be used for a car park to serve a station at Portbury.

The rail enthusiast believes it would be easier to get funding to reopen the railway in stages , starting with a link between Portbury and Ashton Gate.

That would be followed by re-laying three miles of track and building a station in Portishead , followed by extending services into central Bristol , possibly to Wapping Wharf , near the Industrial Museum and ultimately to Temple Meads.