Marlborough Low Level railway station
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Marlborough railway stations
from an old postcard, early 1900s |
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| Location | |
| Place | Marlborough, Wiltshire |
| Area | Wiltshire |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Marlborough Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| History | |
| 1864 | Opened |
| 1933 | Closed |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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| Marlborough Low Level | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Marlborough, Wiltshire |
| Area | Wiltshire |
| Operations | |
| Original company | Swindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Midland and South Western Junction Railway |
| Post-grouping | Great Western Railway |
| History | |
| 1881 | Opened |
| 1961 | Closed |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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Marlborough railway stations refers to the two railway stations which served Marlborough, Wiltshire, England; the town supported two railway routes and Savernake, the junction station at first, later had a second station.
A branch line was built by an independent railway friendly to the Great Western Railway (GWR) from Savernake to Marlborough in 1864. A north-south railway, later to be part of a long distance trunk route, opened from Swindon to its own station at Marlborough in 1881, extending south to Andover in 1881, running over the branch line at first. Later the company built its own duplicate line to by-pass the GWR line.
The two routes came under the same management at the "Grouping" of the railways in 1923 and some rationalisation took place. Passenger services to Marlborough were withdrawn in 1961 and goods services in 1964.
On 11 November 1862, the Berks and Hants Extension Railway (B&HER) opened a broad gauge railway line from Hungerford, itself originally the terminus of a branch line from Reading, to Devizes. At Devizes the new line linked up with the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway branch line from Trowbridge which had opened in 1857. The line was worked by the larger Great Western Railway (GWR).
Although Marlborough was an important market town, the new B&HER main line passed some distance to the south, near the village of Burbage. Local businessmen promoted an independent branch line, the Marlborough Railway, to connect their town to the Savernake station of the B&HER. It opened on 15 April 1864; it was 5 miles 49 chains (9.0 km) in length, and built using the broad gauge. There were no intermediate stations, and trains departed from a new platform at Savernake.
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