place

Purton railway station

Beeching closures in EnglandDisused railway stations in WiltshireFormer Great Western Railway stationsPages with no open date in Infobox stationRailway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1841Use British English from January 2018
Widham Bridge geograph.org.uk 1557707
Widham Bridge geograph.org.uk 1557707

Purton railway station was in operation on the Swindon to Gloucester line in Wiltshire, England, between 1841 and 1964. The Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway through Purton parish was opened in 1841 and was absorbed by the Great Western Railway in 1843. Purton station opened when services began in 1841, in the hamlet of Widham, about 700 metres north of Purton village at the bridge over the Purton-Cricklade road. British Railways closed the station in 1964 but the line remains open. The booking office building survives with a small part of its platform.To the west of the station was a goods yard, and beyond it a private siding for a brickworks.Trains run along the Golden Valley Line through from London Paddington via Reading, Didcot Parkway and Swindon, then past the three closed stations of Purton, Minety and Oaksey Halt to Kemble, continuing to Stroud, Stonehouse, Gloucester and Cheltenham Spa. When engineering work closes the Severn Tunnel, trains from Paddington to Swansea are diverted from the Great Western Main Line and South Wales Main Line via Bristol Parkway to run via Kemble to Gloucester, then along the Gloucester to Newport LineCaldicot before rejoining the normal line at Severn Tunnel Junction. Originally laid as dual-track, British Rail reduced the line between Kemble and Swindon to single-track in 1968. Network Rail investigated the options for reinstating the second track, along with the estimated cost (see Golden Valley Line). In the 2011 Budget the Government announced that funding for the redoubling was to be provided and the works were completed in August 2014.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Purton railway station (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Purton railway station
New Road,

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Purton railway stationContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 51.5939 ° E -1.8664 °
placeShow on map

Address

Purton

New Road
SN5 4HF , Purton
England, United Kingdom
mapOpen on Google Maps

Widham Bridge geograph.org.uk 1557707
Widham Bridge geograph.org.uk 1557707
Share experience

Nearby Places

Widham
Widham

Widham is a hamlet now encompassed within the village and parish of Purton, Wiltshire, England.

Purton
Purton

Purton is a large village and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) northwest of the centre of Swindon. The parish includes the village of Purton Stoke and the hamlets of Bentham, Hayes Knoll, Purton Common, Restrop, The Fox and Widham. The 13th-century parish church, St Mary's, is unusual in having two towers, one with a spire.

Purton F.C.

Purton F.C. are a football club based in Purton, near Swindon, in Wiltshire, England. They play in the Wiltshire League.

St Mary's Church, Purton
St Mary's Church, Purton

St Mary's Church in the village of Purton in north Wiltshire, England, is an active Church of England parish church in the Diocese of Bristol. A large building begun in the 13th century and one of only three churches in England to have both a western tower and a central spire, it has been designated as a Grade I listed building by English Heritage.

Purton Stoke
Purton Stoke

Purton Stoke is a small village in north Wiltshire, England, within the civil parish of Purton. The village lies along a side road off the Purton to Cricklade road, approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Purton village. A lane gives access to the nearby hamlet of Bentham, to the southwest. The River Key, a minor tributary of the Thames, passes close to the west of the village.

Lydiard Millicent
Lydiard Millicent

Lydiard Millicent is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 3+1⁄2 miles (6 km) west of the centre of Swindon. The parish contains the hamlets of Lydiard Green, Lydiard Plain, Greatfield and Green Hill; in the northeast the parish extends to Common Platt, which is now contiguous with the Peatmoor area of Swindon. The Woodbridge Brook rises near the village.

Blunsdon railway station
Blunsdon railway station

Blunsdon railway station is a station on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway, a heritage line in Wiltshire, England. The first station on the site was built in 1895 to serve the village of Blunsdon, north of Swindon, and closed in 1937.

Swindon and Cricklade Railway
Swindon and Cricklade Railway

The Swindon and Cricklade Railway is a heritage railway in Wiltshire, England, that operates on a short section of the old Midland and South Western Junction Railway line between Swindon and Cricklade. Swindon and Cricklade Railway is a registered charity.

Hayes Knoll

Hayes Knoll is a hamlet between Swindon and Cricklade in north Wiltshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Purton, about 0.8 miles (1.3 km) west of the village of Purton Stoke and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Cricklade. The North Wilts Canal, which linked the Wilts & Berks Canal at Swindon with the Thames and Severn Canal at Latton, north of Cricklade, passed close to the hamlet, where there was a lock. The canal was opened in 1819 and abandoned in 1914; since 2007 it has been under restoration as part of the Cricklade Country Way.The hamlet has given its name to Hayes Knoll station on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway.

Hayes Knoll railway station
Hayes Knoll railway station

Hayes Knoll railway station is found on the heritage Swindon and Cricklade Railway in Wiltshire, England. Hayes Knoll station was built in 1999 as part of the work to reopen the section of the former Midland and South Western Junction Railway line between Swindon and Cricklade, the entire route having been closed in 1961. It is just east of Hayes Knoll hamlet in Purton parish, about 1,000 yards (900 m) north of the rebuilt Blunsdon station and 4.5 miles (7 km) north-west of the centre of Swindon. The station has one platform, an engineering workshop and locomotive shed, at a place where the original railway trackbed includes an additional piece of land in railway ownership. It thus provides an initial destination for trains from Blunsdon, and engineering facilities required to operate the railway. There is no public access to Hayes Knoll station except by train. The locomotive depot has five 'roads' that are accessed by means of a headshunt to the north of the depot, where Hayes Oak sidings are. The second road is primarily for the use of steam locomotives and has two inspection pits (one indoors, one outdoors), a watering column and areas to drop ash, store tools and keep wood. The other roads are for the use of both carriages and locomotives. The roads outside the depot building are mainly for storage of wagons required to run the depot such as wagon mounted water and diesel tanks, the septic tank for the toilets, coal wagons and other items of rolling stock necessary to keep the depot functioning.

Ringsbury Camp
Ringsbury Camp

Ringsbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort, thought to date from approximately the year 50BC, in the civil parish of Purton in Wiltshire, England. The site is a scheduled monument.

Restrop Farm and Brockhurst Wood

Restrop Farm and Brockhurst Wood (grid reference SU073866) is a 56.5 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wiltshire, England, about one mile (1.6 km) south-west of Purton village.The SSSI was notified in 1992, for its diverse habitat which includes unimproved hay meadows, permanent pasture, mature hedgerows and ancient woodland.The site is on the southern and western slopes of a hill. On the top of the hill is the Iron Age hillfort called Ringsbury Camp.