Once were trains [2]
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Once were trains [2]
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 6 Aug 2016
A bridge once carried the Devizes branch railway over Sleight Lane at this point but there is no trace of the abutments left at all, merely the rise to the embankment on both sides of the road - this is the east side. Devizes was first reached by a branch line from Holt junction on the Wessex main line in 1857. The line became a through line in 1862 when the GWR Reading to Hungerford line was extended to Devizes via Pewsey. It returned to being a branch line in 1900 when the Stert to Westbury link was built. The line and all of its stations closed in 1966. Some historic railway photographs are at http://www.devizesheritage.org.uk/railway_devizes.html
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51.338456
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