Codford railway station was an intermediate station on the Salisbury branch line of the

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 mill ...

built along the Wylye valley to connect and to serve the surrounding villages, and situated along the lane from

Codford St Peter Codford is a civil parish south of Salisbury Plain in the Wylye Valley in Wiltshire, England. Its settlements are the adjacent villages of Codford St Peter and Codford St Mary, which lie some southeast of Warminster. The two villages are on ...

to Boyton.

History

The station opened on 30 June 1856, at the same time as this section of the line. The original single platform was built on the north side of the line next to a

level crossing A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using an overpass An overpass (called ...

. A passing loop was installed here in 1897 which necessitated the construction of a second platform to serve trains towards Westbury. The line was doubled from Heytesbury in 1899 and on to Wylye in 1900. When an army camp was built at Codford in 1914, a branch line was built connecting it to the station. The branch was taken over at the end of the First World War by the Great Western Railway but closed in 1922. The station lost its passenger service on 19 September 1955 and its goods yard was closed on 10 June 1963. The signal box remained in use until June 1982, when the level crossing was automated.

Services

The station was served by stopping trains on the to line. Trains still run between Warminster and Salisbury, but no longer stop anywhere in between.Current service
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References

{{Closed stations Wiltshire Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1856 Rail transport in Wiltshire Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1955 Disused railway stations in Wiltshire Former Great Western Railway stations