Disused railway lines and closed stations in Wiltshire

125 miles of disused railway
66 closed stations
13 stations open today
21 named lost lines

Wiltshire has 125 miles of disused railway and 66 closed stations, against 13 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 5.1 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Andoversford Line, with 20 miles of its route inside Wiltshire.

See Wiltshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 125 miles of lost railway in Wiltshire break down as 85 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 36 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 4.1 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Wiltshire

21 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Wiltshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Andoversford Line	20
West of England Line	16
Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway (Devizes Branch)	12
Larkhill Military Railway	9.6
Amesbury and Military Camp Light Railway	7.9
Malmesbury Branch	6.7
Chiseldon & Marlborough Railway Path	6.2
Marlborough Branch	5.6
Highworth Branch	4.9
Calne & Chippenham Railway Path	4.3
Alderbury Junction to West Moors	3.3
Salisbury & Dorset Line	1.7
Tidworth Military Railway	1.7
Old Town Railway Path	1.5
Larkhill Military Railway - Stonehenge Aerodrome Branch	1.4
RNAD Dean Hill	1.1
Grafton Curve	0.6
Air Ministry Loop	0.4
Calne & Chippenham Line	0.4
Stratton Factory Branch	0.4
Rushey Platt Curve	0.3

Closed railway stations in Wiltshire

All 66 closed and former stations in Wiltshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Wiltshire

13 stations in Wiltshire still have a train service. The busiest are Swindon (3.2 million a year), Salisbury (2.0 million a year), Chippenham (1.7 million a year), Trowbridge (904,324 a year) and Westbury (543,050 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Berkshire, Dorset, Oxfordshire and Somerset.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. County boundaries are today’s ceremonial counties, with unitary authorities folded into the county they sit in, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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