Devizes railway station was the railway station serving Devizes in Wiltshire, England between 1857 and 1966. The station was on the Devizes branch line...
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Devizes (/dɪˈvaɪzɪz/) is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman castle, and received...
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through Devizes to Holt. The Beeching Axe was the death knell for the junction. The Devizes Branch was recommended for closure, as were the stations between...
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of potential traffic from Devizes. A branch to Devizes was included in plans for the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway, authorised by Parliament in...
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and 1966. The station was on the Devizes branch line, between Devizes station and the Reading-Taunton line. The station, originally named Pans Lane Bridge...
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spa town of Bath. From 1857 to 1966 it was served by Devizes railway station in nearby Station Road. Buildings facing on to it today include The Shambles...
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Bedwyn station was opened on 11 November 1862 by the Great Western Railway company as part of the Berks and Hants Railway from Hungerford to Devizes; the...
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to Devizes again. Conversion of the eastbound line could then take place, and a normal service resumed on 4 July. At Devizes the Extension Railway connected...
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subsequently extended to Devizes and Westbury in 1862 and ultimately to Cogload Junction near Taunton by 1906. The station has a level crossing at its...
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miles. Seend station and the entire Devizes Branch Line were closed under the Beeching cuts. Both were destroyed in 1970. Devizes railway station Oakley, Mike...
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Halt railway station was a small railway station serving Semington in Wiltshire, England, between 1906 and 1966. The station was on the Devizes Branch...
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Halt was the railway station serving Bromham and Rowde in Wiltshire, England between 1909 and 1966. The station was a stop on the Devizes Branch Line,...
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providing a link to Devizes. The station closed in 1966 as part of the Beeching cuts. Today the line is still in use and the station's sidings remain in...
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for the line from Thingley Junction. Devizes to Holt Junction: opened 1857; never double track; closed 1966 Devizes; originally had an overall roof with...
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Hants Railway with the Devizes branch of the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway, thereby creating a shorter route from London Paddington station to Weymouth...
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Westbury Railway was opened by the Great Western Railway Company in 1900 in Wiltshire, England. It shortened the distance between London Paddington station and...
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Maiden Newton railway station is a railway station serving the village of Maiden Newton in Dorset, England. The station is located on the Heart of Wessex...
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Reading–Taunton line (category Railway lines in South East England)
and Chirton railway station marks the start of a cut-off line that avoided the long loop (to the right) through Devizes railway station on the Berks...
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Extension Railway (B&HER) opened a broad gauge railway line from Hungerford, itself originally the terminus of a branch line from Reading, to Devizes. At Devizes...
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descent to Devizes, remained incomplete as late as 1803. The final engineering task was the completion of the Caen Hill Locks at Devizes. While the lock...
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The Berks and Hants Extension Railway, which ran from Hungerford to Devizes, opened on 11 November 1862, and the station named Savernake was opened with...
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Bridge in Philadelphia Green Lane Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Devizes, England Greenlane Clinical Centre, hospital in Auckland, New Zealand -...
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former railway station which opened in 1932 in Manningford parish, Wiltshire, England on the Berks and Hants Extension Railway between Pewsey and Devizes. The...
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Down, a Royalist victory, was fought near Devizes. In 1794, it was decided at a meeting at the Bear Inn in Devizes to raise a body of ten independent troops...
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in Tyne and Wear, England. The station opened on 11 December 2005, on the alignment of the former Blyth and Tyne Railway. A Network Rail freight line shares...
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built to Weymouth, Devizes, Bradford on Avon, Radstock, Sherborne and Bridport in addition; a total of 148 miles (238 km) of railway. The company proceeded...
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Swindon (category Railway towns in England)
Old Town stands but the money ran out and the railway ran into Swindon Town railway station, off Devizes Road in the Old Town, skirting the new town to...
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South West Main Line (redirect from Waterloo via Weybridge railway service)
South West Main Line (SWML) is a 143-mile (230 km) major railway line between Waterloo station in central London and Weymouth on the south coast of England...
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Monkton Combe Halt railway station was a railway station in Monkton Combe, Somerset, England. It was built by the Great Western Railway in 1910, on the Camerton...
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