Wilton North railway station

Wilton North
Location
Place	Wilton
Area	Wiltshire
Coordinates	51°05′14″N 1°51′32″W / 51.0871°N 1.8590°W / 51.0871; -1.8590Coordinates: 51°05′14″N 1°51′32″W / 51.0871°N 1.8590°W / 51.0871; -1.8590
Operations
Original company	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Platforms	2
History
30 June 1856 (1856-06-30)	Opened
19 September 1955 (1955-09-19)	Closed to passengers
6 September 1965 (1965-09-06)	Closed
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Wilton North railway station is a former railway station in Wilton, Wiltshire, UK, in the Wylye Valley. Opened with the line on 30 June 1856, the station for Wilton was originally just one platform on the left of trains heading towards Westbury. A second platform was added when the line was doubled in 1896. Along with other local stations, it was closed on 19 September 1955, although Wilton South remained open for passengers until 1966. Wilton North remained open for goods traffic until 6 September 1965 and the goods shed remains intact and used as a shop.^[1]

In 2015 the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership is proposing a new Wilton Parkway station^[2] immediately to the east (on the other side of Kingsway road bridge). A two platform, six carriage length station will serve the adjacent Park and Ride, the new housing estate being built on the former and adjacent MOD Erskine Barracks site,^[3] and will offer a shuttle bus service to the World Heritage Site at Stonehenge.

A short distance to south the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway opened a station called Wilton in 1859, a route that later became the West of England Main Line of the London and South Western Railway. In September 1949 the former LSWR station was renamed Wilton South, and the former GWR station became “Wilton North”.

References

↑ Oakley, Mike (2004). Wiltshire Railway Stations. Wimbourne: The Dovecote Press. ISBN 1-904349-33-1.
↑ http://www.twcrp.org.uk/WiltonParkway_2015_09.pdf
↑ http://www.ourwilton.org/web/uploads/Erskine_Barracks_Public_Exhibition.pdf

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Wishford Line open, station closed		Great Western Railway Salisbury branch line		Salisbury Line and station open

Closed railway stations in Wiltshire

Bristol and North Somerset Railway	Midford Halt Monkton Combe Halt Limpley Stoke

Salisbury Branch Line	Heytesbury Codford Wylye Langford Wishford Wilton North

Devizes Branch Line	Semington Halt Seend Bromham and Rowde Halt Devizes Pans Lane Halt

Reading to Taunton line	Patney and Chirton Woodborough Manningford Halt Wootton Rivers Halt Savernake Low Level

Chippenham and Calne Line	Stanley Bridge Halt Black Dog Halt Calne

Midland and South Western Junction Railway	Cricklade Moredon Halt Rushey Platt Swindon Town Chiseldon Chiseldon Camp Ogbourne Marlborough Low Level Marlborough High Level Savernake High Level Grafton and Burbage Collingbourne Kingston Halt Collingbourne Ludgershall Tidworth

Great Western Main Line	Box Box (Mill Lane) Halt Corsham Christian Malford Halt Dauntsey Wootton Bassett Wootton Bassett Road Stratton Park Halt

Highworth branch line	Stratton Stanton Hannington Highworth

Golden Valley Line	Oaksey Halt Minety and Ashton Keynes Purton

Wessex Main Line	Lacock Halt Beanacre Halt Broughton Gifford Halt Holt Junction Staverton Halt

Bulford Camp Branch	Bulford Amesbury Newton Tony

South Wales Main Line	Hullavington Little Somerford Brinkworth Great Somerford

West of England Main Line	Dinton Idmiston Halt Porton Semley Wilton South

Other lines	Downton Edington and Bratton Fovant Lavington Malmesbury

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