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    Wootton Bassett Junction railway station, formerly Wootton Bassett railway station, was a junction station in Wootton Bassett where the Great Western...
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    Royal Wootton Bassett /ˈrɔɪəl ˈwʊtən ˈbæsɪt/, formerly Wootton Bassett, is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, with a population of 13...
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  • Wootton Bassett railway stations may refer to: Wootton Bassett Road railway station, temporary railway station in England opened from 1840 to 1841 Wootton...
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  • Wootton Bassett railway station may refer to: Wootton Bassett Road railway station, temporary railway station in England opened from 1840 to 1841 Wootton...
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  • Wootton Bassett Road railway station was opened on 17 December 1840 as Hay Lane as the temporary terminus of the Great Western Railway (GWR) when it was...
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  • Badminton railway line is a railway line opened in 1903 by the Great Western Railway between the Great Western Main Line at Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire...
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    to link this route with the rival Great Western Railway's 1903 "Badminton Line" from Wootton Bassett to Patchway (the current South Wales Main Line) in...
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    at Wootton Bassett Junction on the Great Western Main Line, overrunning the signal by 700 yards (640 m) and coming to a stand blocking the junction. This...
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    section from Faringdon Road to a temporary terminus at Hay Lane (near Wootton Bassett) was opened on 17 December 1840; this passed to the north of the market...
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  • until Royal Assent on 25 July. Now Royal Wootton Bassett E F Carter, An Historical Geography of the Railways of the British Isles, Cassell, London, 1959...
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    Line from Wootton Bassett Junction. The new station had four platforms, each with waiting rooms and large canopies. Services at Filton Junction declined...
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    Great Western Main Line (category Railway operators in London)
    and viaducts, stations, and associated hotels. Presently, the GWML is electrified between London Paddington and Royal Wootton Bassett. In the long term...
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    Great Britain. It diverges from the core London-Bristol line at Royal Wootton Bassett beyond Swindon, first calling at Bristol Parkway, after which the line...
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    stations along the route as well as the new station in Grove and new stations in Corsham and Royal Wootton Bassett. It is then hoped that this service could...
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    Islands traffic. 1903: the South Wales and Bristol Direct Railway from Wootton Bassett Junction to link up with the Severn Tunnel. 1904: a diversion of...
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    Wootton Rivers Halt railway station is a former railway station in Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire, England, on the Reading to Taunton line. The station opened...
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    Badminton railway station is a closed railway station in Gloucestershire, England on the line between Wootton Bassett to the east, and Patchway and Filton...
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    withdrawn in 1896." The Great Western Railway agreed to build its own South Wales Direct Line, from Wootton Bassett to Patchway via Badminton, and it was...
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    Weymouth Railway, absorbed in 1850 by the Great Western Railway. The station opened with the original section of the line between Thingley Junction and Westbury...
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    (2004). Wiltshire Railway Stations. Wimbourne: The Dovecote Press. ISBN 1-904349-33-1. Simpson, Bill (1994). Banbury to Verney Junction Branch. Banbury...
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    Marlborough railway stations refers to the two railway stations which served Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, until 1964. The stations were on separate...
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    Conquest, and a Tenant-in-Chief to King William I of England. Near Royal Wootton Bassett, the parish of Lydiard Tregoze was part of the Kingsbridge Hundred...
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    Plympton on the South Devon Railway. One person was killed. In 1850, an excursion train collided with a horsebox at Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire. Following this...
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    Royal Wootton Bassett and the River Ray near Blunsdon railway station. RAF Blakehill Farm, north of Purton Stoke, was a RAF Transport Command station that...
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  • calls it the first important instance on page 185. Wootton Bassett was retitled Royal Wootton Bassett in 2009. David Bick, The Gloucester & Cheltenham Tramroad...
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    earlier main line at Royal Wootton Bassett and passed half a mile (900 metres) to the north near Little Somerford, where a new station was built. The reduction...
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    four of the main railway companies. Its principal rail-served creameries were: Great Western Railway: Whitland, Carmarthen, Wootton Bassett, St Erth, Lostwithiel...
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    World War, it was the junction for the Fovant Military Railway. The station was about ½ mile from the centre of the village. The station was opened on 2 May...
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  • Line, from Wootton Bassett to Patchway via Badminton. When the GWR gave definite undertakings to do so, the London and South Wales Railway scheme and...
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  • List of rail accidents (before 1880) (category Lists of railway accidents and incidents)
    Kingdom – A Great Western Railway excursion train collides with a horsebox that had escaped from a siding at Wootton Bassett Junction, Wiltshire. Following...
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