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Westbury railway station serves the market town of Westbury in Wiltshire, England.The station is managed by Great Western Railway.. The station is a major junction, serving the Reading to Taunton line with services to and from Penzance and London Paddington; the Wessex Main Line with services to and from Cardiff and Portsmouth, also Swindon; the Heart of Wessex Line with local services from ...
Westbury is served by bus routes 1, 10, 11, 13, 623 and service T7 also connects Westbury-on-Trym with Chepstow. The nearest railway station is Sea Mills station at Sea Mills . Notable residents
Sea Mills railway station is on the Severn Beach Line and serves the districts of Sea Mills, Stoke Bishop, Sneyd Park and nearby Westbury on Trym in Bristol, England. It is 6 miles (9.7 km) from Bristol Temple Meads, situated at the confluence of the River Avon and River Trym and near the A4 Bristol Portway.
The station at Westbury opened on 5 September 1848 as the terminus of a line from Chippenham. Lines continued to both Weymouth and Salisbury and were all served by the same small station with a wooden train shed covering the platforms. In 1899 it was rebuilt with two 600 feet (180 m) platforms, each served by two tracks.
When the Bristol Port and Pier Railway standard gauge line was opened beside the Avon in 1865, from Hotwells to a new deep water pier at Avonmouth, the station built on the south side of the Trym to serve the mansions and villas of the wealthy districts of Stoke Bishop and Sneyd Park was therefore called Sea Mills. [8]
Westbury station was rebuilt in 1899 to cater for 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 Gifford closed in 1955. [ 11 ]
An additional four platforms were built on the north side of Reading station for the relief lines, allowing the existing platforms to be used mostly by fast trains between London and the West. [16] [17] The improved station was officially opened by the Queen in July 2014, and railway upgrades in the area were completed in the summer of 2015 ...
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