Warminster railway station

Warminster
Location
Place	Warminster
Local authority	Wiltshire
Coordinates	51°12′25″N 2°10′36″W / 51.2069°N 2.1768°WCoordinates: 51°12′25″N 2°10′36″W / 51.2069°N 2.1768°W
Grid reference	ST877453
Operations
Station code	WMN
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	0.337 million
2011/12	0.352 million
2012/13	0.355 million
2013/14	0.370 million
2014/15	0.388 million
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
1851	Line opened from Westbury
1856	Line extended to Salisbury
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Warminster from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Warminster railway station is a railway station. It serves the town of Warminster, in Wiltshire, England.

The station is operated by Great Western Railway and is a main station on the Wessex Main Line with regular services to Bristol, Cardiff, Southampton and Portsmouth, as well as a limited service to and from Bristol and London Waterloo each weekday.

History

The station was opened, by the Great Western Railway, on 9 September 1851, as the terminus of its branch from Westbury on its Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth route. The branch was extended to Salisbury on 30 June 1856. The station was originally provided with a train shed covering the tracks and platforms, but this was removed around 1930 when the current canopies were erected in its place. The original wooden buildings were retained and are still in use today.^[1]

Services

Great Western Railway (GWR) operate a generally hourly service in each direction from the station, westbound to Westbury, Bristol Temple Meads and Cardiff Central, and eastbound to Southampton and Portsmouth Harbour. A few additional GWR trains call at certain hours (some of which either originate or terminate here).

South West Trains operate a small number of services between London Waterloo and Bristol Temple Meads,^[2] along with a very limited service from London to Yeovil Pen Mill.^[3]

References

1. Oakley, Mike (2004). Wiltshire Railway Stations. Wimbourne: The Dovecote Press. ISBN 1-904349-33-1.
2. Table 160 National Rail timetable, May 2016
3. "Brighton, Portsmouth and Weymouth - Bristol, Cardiff, Gloucester and Great Malvern" (PDF). Electronic National Rail Timetable. Network Rail. Retrieved 2016-02-24.