Trowbridge railway station

Trowbridge
Location
Place	Trowbridge
Local authority	Wiltshire
Coordinates	51°19′12″N 2°12′51″W / 51.3200°N 2.2143°WCoordinates: 51°19′12″N 2°12′51″W / 51.3200°N 2.2143°W
Grid reference	ST851578
Operations
Station code	TRO
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	0.740 million
2011/12	0.779 million
2012/13	0.790 million
2013/14	0.850 million
2014/15	0.903 million
History
Original company	Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
1848	Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Trowbridge from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Trowbridge railway station is a railway station on the Wessex Main Line serving the town of Trowbridge in Wiltshire, England. The station is 24 miles (39 km) south east of Bristol Temple Meads and is managed by Great Western Railway.

Originally opened by the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway in 1848 as part of their Thingley Junction to Westbury line, it gained a link to Bath and Bristol nine years later thanks to the Great Western Railway. This is now the main line, as the original route to Chippenham has been singled and reduced to secondary status.

Description

The small station building is located on the northbound platform (platform 1). This platform is for trains to Bath. Bristol and Cardiff. Platform 2, on the southbound line is for trains to Westbury, London and the South Coast.

The station building contains a staffed ticket office, benches, vending machines, one electronic information sign, timetable information, bus timetable information and free leaflets, toilet facilities and Free Metro newspapers are available. On Platform 1 there are Two electronic information signs, covered bike stands, benches, shelter with benches, one self-service ticket machine. Platform 2 has a two electronic display signs, covered bike racks, train timetables, a shelter with benches, one self-service ticket machine, public telephone and taxi hiring.

Services

A train to Portsmouth

Regular service (at present half-hourly each way Mon-Sat, hourly on Sundays) is provided by Great Western Railway (train operating company) to Bath Spa, Bristol Temple Meads and either Gloucester or Cardiff Central northbound and Weymouth or Southampton and Portsmouth in the south.^[1]

The original WS&WR line diverges to the north of Trowbridge, formerly carried a limited passenger service (two per day each way Mon-Sat, one each way on Sundays) to/from Swindon via Melksham and Chippenham. This was improved to a two-hourly service (8 trains each way total on weekdays, 5 each way on Sundays) at the December 2013 timetable change. Two services continue beyond Swindon through to Cheltenham Spa on weekdays only.

The station is served by a limited service between Bristol Temple Meads and London Waterloo via Basingstoke (3 per day Mondays to Saturdays, 2 on Sundays) by South West Trains.^[2]

References

1. GB National Rail Timetable May 2016, Table 123 (Network Rail)
2. GB NRT Table 160