Hullavington railway station served the civil parish of

Hullavington Hullavington is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, just to the north of the M4 motorway. The village lies about southwest of Malmesbury and north of Chippenham. The Fosse Way, a Roman road, forms the western boundary of the par ...

Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire ...

, England from 1903 to 1965 on the

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History

The station was opened on 1 July 1903 by the

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

, on an embankment just west of the Hullavington-

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road, about half a mile north of Hullavington village. There was a goods yard and a weighbridge. The station closed to passengers on 3 April 1961 and to goods traffic on 4 October 1965.

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Disused railway stations in Wiltshire Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1903 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1961 1903 establishments in England 1965 disestablishments in England {{SouthWestEngland-railstation-stub