In 1886, the daily Great Western service along the Clifton Extension Railway was 6 trains each way between Avonmouth and Temple Meads, 24 trains from Clifton Down to Temple Meads and 26 the other direction.
When the railways were nationalised in 1948, Lawrence Hill came under the control of the Western Region of British Railways,[REF] which oversaw a gradual decline of services at Lawrence Hill.