Collingbourne railway station served the village of

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. It was on the

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(M&SWJR) and opened on 1 May 1882 on the southern section of the

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(SM&AR) which at that stage terminated at the-then next station to the north, Grafton and Burbage. In 1883, the SM&AR gained running rights over the

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branch from Savernake Low Level to

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and through services started between

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and Andover Junction railway station, and on down the

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. The same year, the Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway (S&CER) opened north of Swindon as far as

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and in 1884 the SM&AR and the S&CER merged to form the M&SWJR. The line was completed as a through-route from the Midlands to the south coast by the completion of the northern end of the route between Cirencester and Cheltenham in 1891. Collingbourne was sited to the east of the village of Collingbourne Ducis and originally had a passing loop. The track was doubled through Collingbourne early in the 20th century. Collingbourne station had a brick building on the up platform towards Swindon and a shelter on the down platform, which also housed a signalbox. The station master's house was behind the up platform. There was a small goods yard, but goods traffic was not high. In 1932, a halt was opened at

Collingbourne Kingston Collingbourne Kingston is a village and civil parish about south of the market town of Marlborough in Wiltshire, England. The village, which is on the A338 primary route between Andover and Marlborough, is one of several on the River Bourne, ...

, about 1.5 miles north of Collingbourne station, in an effort by the GWR, which had taken over the M&SWJR on the Grouping in 1923, to generate traffic on a line threatened by increasing road use. As a whole, traffic on the M&SWJR fell steeply after the

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and the line closed to passengers in 1961, with goods facilities withdrawn from this section of the line at the same time. Collingbourne station was demolished, though the station master's house remains.

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* ''Wiltshire Railway Stations'', Mike Oakley, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, 2004, , pages 42–43 {{Closed stations Wiltshire Disused railway stations in Wiltshire Former Midland and South Western Junction Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1882 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1961