The Wessex Main Line is the railway line from Bristol Temple Meads to Southampton Central. Diverging from this route is the Heart of Wessex Line from Westbury to Weymouth. The Wessex Main Line intersects the Reading to Taunton Line at Westbury and the West of England Main Line at Salisbury.
The Heart of Wessex Line,also known as the Bristol to Weymouth Line,is a railway line that runs from Bristol Temple Meads to Westbury and Weymouth in England. It shares the Wessex Main Line as far as Westbury and then follows the course of the Reading to Taunton Line as far as Castle Cary.
Pewsey railway station serves the large village of Pewsey in the county of Wiltshire,England. The station is on the Berks and Hants line,75 miles 26 chains measured from the zero point at London Paddington,and served by intercity trains operated by Great Western Railway between London and the West Country. The average journey time to London Paddington from Pewsey is just over an hour. Services between Pewsey and Bedwyn,the next station up the line,are infrequent,most eastbound services next calling at Hungerford,Newbury or Reading instead. This is because Bedwyn was the most westerly point of the Network SouthEast on this line,while Pewsey was an InterCity station.
Bath Spa railway station is the principal station serving the city of Bath in Somerset,England. It is on the Great Western Main Line,106 miles 71 chains down the line from the zero point at London Paddington between Chippenham to the east and Oldfield Park to the west. It is the busiest station in Somerset,and the second busiest station in South West England after Bristol Temple Meads.
Dorchester West is one of two railway stations that serve the town of Dorchester in Dorset,England,the other is Dorchester South. It is managed by Great Western Railway,which also operates all services that stop here. The station is located on the Heart of Wessex Line between Castle Cary and Weymouth,at the southern end of a single track section from Maiden Newton. It is sited 161.63 mi (260.12 km) from London Paddington,via Swindon and Westbury. The line becomes double at the station and remains so to just before nearby Dorchester Junction,where the line joins the South West Main Line from London Waterloo to Weymouth.
Castle Cary railway station is on the Reading to Taunton line 115.25 miles (185.48 km) south west of London Paddington and the Bristol to Weymouth line 47.75 miles (77 km) south of Bristol Temple Meads. The two routes share tracks between Westbury and Castle Cary stations and are both operated by Great Western Railway,which also manages the station. The station is 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the market town of Castle Cary and 5 miles (8 km) south of Shepton Mallet in a largely rural area of Somerset,England.
Swindon railway station is on the Great Western Main Line in South West England,serving the town of Swindon,Wiltshire. The station is 77 miles 23 chains down the line from the zero point at London Paddington and lies between Didcot Parkway and Chippenham. It is managed by Great Western Railway,which also operates all of the services from the station. It is the busiest station in Wiltshire,and the fifth busiest station in South West England.
Chippenham railway station is on the Great Western Main Line (GWML) in South West England,serving the town of Chippenham,Wiltshire. It is 93 miles 76 chains down the line from the zero point at London Paddington and is situated between Swindon and Bath Spa on the GWML. The Wessex Main Line diverges from the GWML to the southwest of Chippenham and runs to Trowbridge via Melksham.
Trowbridge railway station serves the county town of Trowbridge in Wiltshire,England. The station is 24 miles (39 km) south east of Bristol Temple Meads on the Wessex Main Line and is managed by Great Western Railway.
The Night Riviera is a sleeper train operated by Great Western Railway (GWR). It is one of only two sleeper services on the railway in the United Kingdom. The Night Riviera runs six nights a week (Sunday–Friday) between London Paddington and Penzance with one train in each direction.
Melksham railway station serves the town of Melksham in Wiltshire,England. It is 100 miles 13 chains measured from London Paddington,on the TransWilts Line between Chippenham and Trowbridge that was originally part of the Wilts,Somerset and Weymouth Railway,absorbed in 1850 by the Great Western Railway.
Frome railway station serves a largely rural area of the county of Somerset in England,and is situated in the town of Frome. The station is located on a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long branch line which loops off the main line railway,which carries services on both the Reading to Taunton line and Bristol to Weymouth route. Most of the trains which take the loop line in order to serve Frome station are on the Bristol to Weymouth route,and most trains on the Reading to Taunton line by-pass the station on the main line. The station is 22.25 miles (36 km) south of Bath Spa on the Bristol to Weymouth line,it is owned by Network Rail and is operated by Great Western Railway.
The Wilts,Somerset and Weymouth Railway (WS&WR) was an early railway company in south-western England. It obtained Parliamentary powers in 1845 to build a railway from near Chippenham in Wiltshire,southward to Salisbury and Weymouth in Dorset. It opened the first part of the network but found it impossible to raise further money and sold its line to the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1850.
Rail services in the West of England refer to passenger rail journeys made in the Bristol commuter area. 17 million passenger rail journeys were made in 2019-20 within the Gloucestershire,Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath region.
The Langport and Castle Cary Railway is a railway line from Castle Cary railway station to Cogload Junction near Taunton,Somerset,England,which reduced the length of the journey from London to Penzance by 20+1⁄4 miles (32.6 km).
The Stert and Westbury Railway was opened by the Great Western Railway Company in 1900 in Wiltshire,England. It shortened the distance between London Paddington station and Weymouth,and since 1906 has also formed part of the Reading to Taunton line for a shorter journey from London to Penzance.
Go-op Cooperative Ltd.,branded as Go-op,is an open access train operating company,proposing to operate a service in south-west England between Taunton and Swindon,via Westbury. It aims to become the first cooperatively owned train operating company in the United Kingdom,to improve access to the public transport infrastructure through open access rail services linking main lines to smaller market towns,and by co-ordinating services with light rail,bus links and car pools.
Holt Junction was a railway station which served the village of Holt,Wiltshire,England between 1861 and 1966. It stood on the Wessex Main Line at its junction with the western end of the Devizes branch.
The Reading–Taunton line is a major branch of the Great Western Main Line from which it diverges at Reading railway station. It runs to Cogload Junction where it joins the Bristol to Exeter and Penzance line.
The Weymouth Wizard was a named summer service operated by Great Western Railway (GWR) via the Heart of Wessex Line between Bristol Temple Meads and Weymouth. The special service was named when GWR started running a single Saturday summer InterCity 125 service between Bristol Temple Meads and Weymouth.
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