Category: About Warminster: Railway Station

Photograph Showing The Dining Room/Sandwiches Room At The Avenue Primary School, Warminster

Photograph taken in 1995, of the view south-west from the footbridge at Warminster Railway Station. 

On the left is the Baden Powell Scout Hut. Adjacent is a building (black sides, white doors and windows, and a grey roof) in the north east corner of the grounds of the Avenue Primary School.
This particular building was the dining room/sandwiches room at the Avenue School, where children ate their sandwiches.

The building burnt down in a fire (started accidentally) 
circa 1997. 

In the background can be seen the drill tower at Warminster Fire Station.

Warminster Station View Of The Scrap Yard

A view north-east from the Portway end of the
up-line platform of Warminster Railway Station,
looking across the tracks to the scrapyard of
E.S. Shanley & Son.

The large buildings in background are those of
the Copheap Lane Industrial Estate.

The photograph was taken by Danny Howell
on Monday 25th March 1991.

Warminster’s Accessibility By Rail, 1971

Information gleaned from a Warminster Town Guide, 1971:

Rail. Warminster has a station on the Southern Region line from Southampton and Salisbury to Bath and Bristol.

Modern diesel trains run at roughly two hourly intervals (less often on Sundays) to Salisbury and to Westbury, Trowbridge, Bradford-on-Avon and Bath.

Most of the Salisbury trains continue through to Southampton and Portsmouth whilst several of the Bristol trains continue through to Newport and Cardiff.

Several of the through trains convey buffet facilities.

Summer Saturday services see extra through trains run including one to Bournemouth via Southampton and Brockenhurst and one to Cardiff and Swansea.

Starling Chicks In Nest Hauled From Longleat To Warminster Station Continued To Be Fed By Parents

From The Warminster Herald, Saturday 24th May 1873:

During the past week timber merchants have been hauling timber the five miles from Longleat estate to Warminster Station. In one of the trees a pair of starlings had built their nest and hatched their young. It had been hauled in the usual manner, the young birds still remaining in it and apparently uninjured. The strangest part remains to be told – on the following day the old birds discovered the whereabouts of their young and continued feeding at regular intervals.