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Stanley Bridge Halt was a railway station on the
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Calne Calne () is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, southwestern England,OS Explorer Map 156, Chippenham and Bradford-on-Avon Scale: 1:25 000.Publisher: Ordnance Survey A2 edition (2007). at the northwestern extremity of the North Wessex Downs h ...
. Facilities were a wooden platform with a GWR pagoda shelter The halt closed in 1965.


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Stanley Bridge Halt station on navigable 1948 O. S. map

Stanley Bridge Halt station on Subterranea Britannica
Disused railway stations in Wiltshire Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1905 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1965 1905 establishments in England 1965 disestablishments in England Beeching closures in England Former Great Western Railway stations {{SouthWestEngland-railstation-stub