• The Stert and Westbury Railway was opened by the Great Western Railway Company in 1900 in Wiltshire, England. It shortened the distance between London...
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    1900 the GWR built the Stert and Westbury Railway, which diverged from the earlier line near Patney, east of Stert parish, and later formed part of the...
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    direct line was in 1900 when the Stert and Westbury Railway was built from Patney and Chirton (west of Pewsey) to Westbury. In addition to being part of...
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    the Reading to Taunton Line. In 1900 the Stert and Westbury Railway allowed Devizes to be bypassed, and Westbury became the next major station west of Bedwyn...
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    were in the range 150 to 200. The Stert and Westbury Railway was built across the parish by the Great Western Railway Company in 1900, providing routes...
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    Wessex Main Line (category Railway lines in South East England)
    the Stert and Westbury Railway, opened 1900, which now forms part of the Reading–Taunton line. On the Chippenham branch, the halts at Beanacre and Broughton...
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    which allowed through trains over the Berks and Hants to Bristol Temple Meads. The Stert and Westbury Railway was opened on 29 July 1900, (1 October 1900...
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    of the Stert and Westbury line. This was a faster route from London to Weymouth, which at Westbury crossed the route between the south coast and Bristol...
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    double track in 1899 in preparation for the opening of the Stert and Westbury Railway at Patney and Chirton. A signal box was situated on the west end of the...
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    traffic after the completion in 1900 of the Stert and Westbury Railway between Patney and Chirton station and Westbury, which by-passed the Devizes branch to...
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    Bath and Bristol or the West Country. Traffic on the line reduced from 1900 after the GWR opened the Stert and Westbury Railway between Patney and Chirton...
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    from Hungerford via Pewsey to Devizes and further west. In 1900 the same company built the Stert and Westbury Railway, which diverged from the earlier line...
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    the late 17th century and early 18th. The Stert and Westbury Railway was built through the parish by the Great Western Railway Company in 1900, providing...
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    with a post office, and a doctor's surgery. The Stert and Westbury Railway was built through the parish by the Great Western Railway Company in 1900, providing...
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    150 metres to the northeast. The Stert and Westbury Railway was built through the parish by the Great Western Railway Company in 1900, providing routes...
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    Chippenham-Westbury line and the Devizes branch. Usage of the Devizes line declined from 1900 after the opening of the shorter Stert-Westbury link, which...
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    century and was the largest employer in the area. The firm closed in 1970 and the site is now the village play area. The Stert and Westbury Railway was built...
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    War Department in 1899–1900 and today forms part of the Salisbury Plain Training Area. When the Stert and Westbury Railway was opened through the Vale...
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    military use in 1889, and the road through West Lavington (now the A360) became the route to Salisbury. The Stert and Westbury Railway, part of the route...
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    lines and upgrading old ones to shorten the company's previously circuitous routes. The principal new lines opened were: 1900: Stert and Westbury linking...
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  • line suffered from reduced traffic after the completion of the Stert and Westbury Railway that bypassed the Devizes line in order to reduce the London to...
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  • from Patney to meet the WS&WR line at Westbury, the Stert and Westbury cut-off. This was started in 1895, and goods traffic first ran on the route on...
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    Great Western and then taken over by it, and Savernake became a junction. When the Reading to Taunton line was created and the Stert to Westbury cut-off opened...
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    the Stert and Westbury Railway in 1900, and the special trains carrying passengers and mails off the transatlantic liners at Plymouth used this and the...
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    private residence. The Stert and Westbury Railway was built by the Great Western Railway Company, running to the north of the village and opening in 1900. The...
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  • Halt suffered from reduced traffic after the completion of the Stert and Westbury Railway line, which by-passed Devizes to shorten the London to Bristol...
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    Patney (section Railway)
    constituency. The Stert and Westbury Railway was built close to the north of the village in 1900 by the Great Western Railway Company. There was a station...
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    house at Coulston and renamed it Baynton House. The Stert & Westbury Railway was built across the parish by the Great Western Railway Company, opening...
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  • Devizes branch line (category Closed railway lines in South West England)
    from 1900 after the Stert-Westbury link was built to reduce journey time by avoiding the steep inclines into Devizes. The line and all its stations closed...
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    River Parrett (category Dredged rivers and waterways)
    present. A "neck" started to form in the peninsula, and by 1802 the tip had broken off to form Stert Island. Fenning Island also broke away but has rejoined...
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