Corsham railway station

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Corsham railway station served the town of Corsham in Wiltshire, England. The station was on the main Great Western Railway line from London to Bristol and was opened when the Chippenham to Bath section opened in June 1841.

The station was situated in a cutting to the south of the town with the main station building at the top of the cutting on the town side. There were small shelters with canopies on each of the two platforms. Passengers accessed the up platform using a path and the down platform from the footbridge.

Corsham had extensive and much used sidings on both sides of the track to the west of the station, with a goods shed and a loading dock. The main goods traffic was stone from the quarries under Box Hill, which was brought to the lineside by a two-foot-six-inch tramway system. The sidings led right up to the mouth of Box Tunnel, whose eastern portal is less than a mile from the station.

Passenger services were withdrawn from Corsham with the end of stopping services between Bristol and Swindon in January 1965. Goods traffic had ended in June 1963, though the siding with the loading dock remained in place until 1978. Of the station structures, only the goods shed now remains, though the footbridge is still in place as part of a pedestrian footpath across the main line.

The recent growth of Corsham as a town has led to demand for a new station.