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    The Highworth branch line was a short railway branch line to the northeast of Swindon, England, in use from 1883 to 1962. It was most successful as a...
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    II* listed building. Highworth was the terminus of a Great Western Railway branch line from Swindon, the Highworth branch line, which was closed to passengers...
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  • 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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    from Paddington to West Drayton, including the Airport branch, as part of the Elizabeth line. The eastern section from Paddington to Hayes & Harlington...
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    Highworth railway station served the town of Highworth, Wiltshire, England, from 1883 to 1962 on the Highworth branch line. The station was opened on 9...
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    (via a subsidy) or by a new owner.[citation needed] Remains of the Highworth Branch Line in Swindon, England Abandoned railway bridge over Nysa Kłodzka in...
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    network since 1962 when the Highworth branch line closed following declining passenger numbers. The branch from Swindon to Highworth was opened in 1883, over...
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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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    England on the Highworth Branch Line from Swindon. The station was about a mile southeast of Hannington village, near the Blunsdon to Highworth road; the platform...
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    historic county of Wiltshire, England, from 1883 to 1953 on the Highworth branch line. The station was opened on 9 May 1883 by the Great Western Railway...
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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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  • 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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    historic county of Wiltshire, England, from 1883 to 1962 on the Highworth branch line. The station was opened on 9 May 1883 by the Great Western Railway...
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    was located on the Bulford Camp branch line, which diverged from what is now known as the West of England Main Line at a triangular junction between...
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    Wiltshire, England between 1857 and 1966. The station was on the Devizes branch line, between Pans Lane Halt and Bromham & Rowde. The idea of having a railway...
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    in 1947. On 15 April 1864, the Marlborough Railway opened its short branch line to Marlborough, which was operated by the Great Western and then taken...
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  • Railway on its Salisbury branch from Westbury. It was closed to passengers in 1955 and completely in 1965. Opened with the line on 30 June 1856, the station...
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    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...
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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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    were sold at No 54 High Street. Traffic on the M&SWJR line declined heavily after the war and the line closed to passenger and goods traffic in 1961. There...
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    Dinton in Wiltshire, England. It was situated on the West of England Main Line from London Waterloo station to Exeter. It was opened in 1859 and closed...
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    World War, thought was given to connecting the Fairford branch with the Highworth Branch Line using a 6-mile (9.7 km) spur between Lechlade and Hannington...
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    Salisbury branch line of the Great Western Railway next to the bridge carrying the minor road to Tytherington. Originally just a single track, the line was...
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    various branch lines, being loaned to the Liskeard and Looe Railway and later continuing to work on the Looe branch. It was also recorded on the Highworth branch...
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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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    Black Dog Halt is a former railway station on the Chippenham and Calne line in Wiltshire, England. Originally created in 1863 as a private stop for Lord...
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    Wiltshire, England, until 1964. The stations were on separate routes. A branch line was built by an independent railway friendly to the Great Western Railway...
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    Main Line at its junction with the western end of the Devizes branch. In 1848, the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway Company opened their line southward...
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    branch line to Malmesbury in 1877. The up platform was extended west of the road bridge with a bay platform to accommodate trains on the branch line....
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  • of its existence. The track remains open as part of the Reading–Taunton line. Oakley, Mike (2004). Wiltshire Railway Stations. Wimborne: The Dovecote...
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