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Dilton Marsh Railway Station
Dilton Marsh railway station serves the village of Dilton Marsh in Wiltshire, England. It is on the Wessex Main Line between Bristol Temple Meads railway station, Bristol Temple Meads and Southampton Central railway station, north of Salisbury railway station, Salisbury. Great Western Railway (train operating company), Great Western Railway manages the station and operates services between Bristol and the South Coast which call there. History The Great Western Railway opened the station as Dilton Marsh Halt on 1 June 1937, on a curved embankment next to the bridge where the line crosses the eastern and of Dilton Marsh High Street, on the southwestern outskirts of Westbury, Wiltshire, Westbury. The wooden platforms were long and were provided with small wooden shelters; construction cost £1,134. Since it was a Train station#Halt, halt, there were no staff to sell tickets; instead, a sign directed passengers to the "7th house up the hill", where Mrs H. Roberts sold tickets, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilton Marsh
Dilton Marsh is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the far west of the county of Wiltshire, in the southwest of England. The village is about southwest of the centre of the town of Westbury, Wiltshire, Westbury; Dilton Marsh remains a distinct settlement with its own character and community, bounded and separated from Westbury Leigh by the Biss Brook. The parish includes the small settlements of Penknap (east of Dilton Marsh village); Penleigh (northeast); Stormore (now contiguous with the west of the village); Clearwood (a little further west); and the rural hamlets of Fairwood (north) and Hisomley (southwest). Geography The parish lies on greensand in the southeast, and clay in the north and west. It is low-lying, nowhere reaching a height above . To the west is the Somerset town of Frome, the garrison town of Warminster is to the southeast, and Wiltshire's county town of Trowbridge is to the north. The Somerset border is some to the west of Dilton M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
