• The Devizes branch line was a railway line from Holt Junction (south-west of Melksham) to Patney and Chirton (south-east of Devizes), in Wiltshire, England...
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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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    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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    Chippenham branch: Lacock Halt, Beanacre Halt, Melksham, Holt (along with the entire Devizes branch) and Staverton Halt. The section of line between Thingley...
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  • Pans Lane Halt railway station (category Devizes)
    southeast of the town of Devizes in Wiltshire, England, between 1929 and 1966. The station was on the Devizes branch line, between Devizes station and the Reading-Taunton...
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    was part of a route that was extended west to Devizes and Trowbridge. The line was opened as a branch to Hungerford in 1847, then extended west in 1862...
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    bypassed the longer single line through Devizes to Holt. The Beeching Axe was the death knell for the junction. The Devizes Branch was recommended for closure...
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    responsible for all significant local government functions. The Devizes Branch Line was built through the parish in 1857 and a small station – Bromham...
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    Whitley. The Devizes Branch Line was completed in 1857 and also taken over by the GWR, but closed in 1966. It connected with the main line near Holt and...
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    Devizes Branch Line, between Seend and Devizes. The single-platform halt was at Sells Green in the north-east of Seend parish, close to the Devizes–Melksham...
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  • 1906 and 1966. The station was on the Devizes Branch Line, in between Holt Junction and Seend. The line from Devizes to Holt Junction was opened in 1857...
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    area was transferred to Trowbridge and another area (south of the Devizes branch line) was transferred from Melksham. St George's church at Semington was...
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  • in Great Britain Beeching cuts Morrison, Brian (ed.). "The Meldon Quarry Branch". Modern Railways Pictorial, 1986. Ian Allan. p. 16. ISBN 0-7110-1510-4...
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    good for wildlife and in August 2007 water voles were seen. The Devizes Branch Line was built 0.6 miles (0.97 km) north of the village in 1857. A small...
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    company sold its line to the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1850. In 1857 the GWR completed the Devizes branch line, which met the earlier line to the east...
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    village of Seend in Wiltshire, England. The station was a stop on the Devizes Branch Line, between Semington and Bromham & Rowde. Its position northwest of...
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    Until 1963, local services ran to Trowbridge via the so-called Devizes branch line which was closed in that year. The station had a siding for general...
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    gauge railway line from Hungerford, itself originally the terminus of a branch line from Reading, to Devizes. At Devizes the new line linked up with...
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  • Military Camp Light Railway (also known as the Bulford Camp Railway) was a branch line in Wiltshire, England, constructed under a light railway order, the Amesbury...
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    southernmost part of Melksham parish, namely the area south of the Devizes branch line, was transferred to the parish of Steeple Ashton with Semington....
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  • dBASE software Design-based learning, a modern pedagogy Devizes branch line, a defunct railway line running from Holt to Pewsey from 1857 to 1966 Digital...
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  • Reading to Devizes, and on constructing the Stert and Westbury line that would connect the Berks and Hants line with Westbury. The new line was ready for...
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    July 1881; in early 1882, the line was extended northwards from Swindon Town to a junction with the Great Western main line at Rushey Platt, and services...
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    Nicholas Grimshaw. The village was bounded to the south by the GWR's Devizes Branch Line until its closure in 1966. In the first decade of the 21st century...
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    of the line up to Swindon, while the branch to Tidworth closed to passengers in 1955, and fully closed in 1963. The spur at Ludgershall and line south...
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    continued the Hungerford line to Devizes in Wiltshire. Since 1906 part of this route has formed the direct Reading to Taunton Line used by trains to Devon...
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    even closer to Seend Cleeve. The Great Western Railway opened the Devizes Branch Line in 1857, passing about 0.6 miles (970 m) north of Seend village,...
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    are a flight of 29 locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire, England. Of the 107 locks on the canal, those at Caen Hill...
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    under way since 2021. The station was on the Great Western Railway main line from London to Bristol and was opened when the Chippenham to Bath section...
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  • trailing junction for the line from Thingley Junction. Devizes to Holt Junction: opened 1857; never double track; closed 1966 Devizes; originally had an overall...
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