Seend railway station

Seend
General information
Location	Seend, Wiltshire England
Coordinates	51°21′21″N2°05′44″W / 51.3557°N 2.0955°W / 51.3557; -2.0955
Grid reference	ST934618
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
Key dates
1 July 1857	Opened
18 April 1966	Closed
Location

Former railway near Seend in December 2009

Seend railway station was near the village of Seend in Wiltshire, England. The station was a stop on the Devizes Branch Line, between Semington and Bromham & Rowde. Its position northwest of the village was chosen to serve the iron ore quarry and iron works at Seend Cleeve. ^[1]

After the completion of the Devizes line, the junction at Holt made the line part of the fastest route from London to the West Country. The line suffered from reduced traffic after the completion in 1900 of the Stert and Westbury Railway between Patney and Chirton station and Westbury, which by-passed the Devizes branch to shorten the London to Plymouth journey by five miles.

Seend station and the entire Devizes Branch Line were closed under the Beeching cuts in April 1966. Both were destroyed in 1970.

See also

• Devizes railway station

References

1. Oakley, Mike (2004). Wiltshire Railway Stations. Wimborne: The Dovecote Press. p. 117. ISBN   1904349331.

External links

• Crittall, Elizabeth, ed. (1959). "Railways". A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 4. Victoria County History. University of London. pp. 280–293. Retrieved 5 February 2023– via British History Online.
• "Great Western Railway – Devizes Branch". Well House Consultants Ltd. Retrieved 20 January 2016.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Bromham and Rowde Halt Line and station closed		Great Western Railway Devizes Branch Line		Semington Halt Line and station closed