Warminster railway station

This article is about the railway station in England. For Warminster Station in Pennsylvania, see Warminster (SEPTA station).

Warminster
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Location
Place	Warminster
Local authority	Wiltshire
Coordinates
Grid reference	ST877453
Operations
Station code	WMN
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03	0.279 million
2004/05	0.294 million
2005/06	0.299 million
2006/07	0.301 million
2007/08	0.304 million
2008/09	0.313 million
2009/10	0.311 million
2010/11	0.337 million
2011/12	0.352 million
2012/13	0.355 million
2013/14	0.370 million
History
Original company	Great Western Railway
1851	Line opened from Westbury
1856	Line extended to Salisbury
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Warminster from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Warminster railway station is a railway station. It serves the town of Warminster, in Wiltshire, England.

The station is operated by Great Western Railway and is a main station on the Wessex Main Line with regular services to Bristol, Cardiff, Southampton and Portsmouth, as well as a limited service to and from Bristol and London Waterloo each weekday.

History

The station was opened, by the Great Western Railway, on 9 September 1851, as the terminus of its branch from Westbury on its Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth route. The branch was extended to Salisbury on 30 June 1856. The station was originally provided with a train shed covering the tracks and platforms, but this was removed around 1930 when the current canopies were erected in its place. The original wooden buildings were retained and are still in use today.

Services

There is a basic hourly Great Western Railway service in each direction from the station, westbound to Westbury, Bristol Temple Meads and Cardiff Central, and eastbound to Southampton and Portsmouth Harbour. There are also a few additional stopping trains between Bristol and Southampton and a small number of services that start or terminate here.

Three South West Trains services each weekday operate to/from London Waterloo via Basingstoke, along with a fourth to and from Salisbury.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Dilton Marsh		Great Western Railway Wessex Main Line		Salisbury
Westbury		South West Trains Bristol-London Waterloo (Limited Service)		Salisbury
	Historical railways
Dilton Marsh Line and station open		Great Western Railway Wessex Main Line		Heytesbury Line open, station closed