Friday 20th March 1987
In the snow: diesel locomotive 33063 hauling passenger carriages (Portsmouth to Cardiff) approaching Cox’s Drove Bridge, Bishopstrow, having passed over Middleton Bridge, Friday 20th March 1987.
Scratchbury Hill and Norton Wood Plantation, Norton Bavant, in the background.
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.
Steam enthusiasts capture the moment when
the BR Standard Class 9F locomotive No.92003
approaches Upton Scudamore, in 1967.
On the Great Western Railway
before the Second World War.
Steam locomotive 8327 with train,
en route from Warminster to Salisbury,
approaching Skew Bridge
(A36 road over the railway)
at Norton Bavant, near Warminster.
Norton Wood Plantation and the
Iron Age ramparts of Scratchbury Hill
in the background.
Photograph taken on 19th July 1937
by H. C. Casserley of Berkhampsted.
G.W.R. Station, Heytesbury, circa 1910. View looks west from the bridge which carries the Tytherington road over the line. Photograph on a postcard published by Hibberd Bros., of Heytesbury.
