Codford railway station was an intermediate station[1] on the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway built along the Wylye valley to connect Warminster and Salisbury to serve the surrounding villages, and situated along the lane from Codford St Peter to Boyton[2]. The Wilts Somerset and Weymouth Railway was a Broad gauge railway that linked the Great Western Railway at Chippenham Wiltshire with Weymouth Warminster is a town in western Wiltshire, England, by-passed by the A36, and near Frome and Westbury. Salisbury (ˈsɒlzbri ˈsɔːlzbri ('Solzbry' or ˈzɔːwzbri ('Zawzbry' — moving from RP to local dialect) is a cathedral city in the Codford is a small Village located to the south of Salisbury Plain in the Wylye Valley in Wiltshire, England at. Boyton is a village and Civil parish in the West Wiltshire district of Wiltshire, England. When an army camp was built at Codford in 1914 [3] a branch line was built connecting it to the station[4]. The branch was taken over at the end of the First World War by the Great Western Railway but closed in 1922.
By the 1950s fewer and fewer travellers used the station, and it closed for passengers in 1955 and for goods in 1963. Trains still run between Warminster and Salisbury, but no longer stop at anywhere in between[5].
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