- This article is about the railway station in the United Kingdom. For the railway station in Brisbane, Australia, see Salisbury railway station, Brisbane. For the railway station in Adelaide, Australia, see Salisbury railway station, Adelaide.
| Salisbury | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Salisbury |
| Local authority | Wiltshire |
| Coordinates | 51°04′14″N 1°48′20″W / 51.0705°N 1.8055°WCoordinates: 51°04′14″N 1°48′20″W / 51.0705°N 1.8055°W |
| Operations | |
| Station code | SAL |
| Managed by | South West Trains |
| Platforms in use | 4 |
| Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail |
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| Annual rail passenger usage | |
| 2002/03 * | 1.437 million |
| 2004/05 * | 1.560 million |
| 2005/06 * | 1.603 million |
| 2006/07 * | 1.621 million |
| 2007/08 * | 1.681 million |
| History | |
| Original company | Salisbury and Yeovil Railway |
| Pre-grouping | London and South Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | Southern Railway |
| 1859 | Opened |
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |
| A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | |
| * Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Salisbury from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. | |
Salisbury is a railway station serving the city of Salisbury, Wiltshire. Located 83.75 miles (135 km) southwest of London Waterloo, the station is the crossing point of the West of England Main Line and the Wessex Main Line. The station is operated by South West Trains.
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History
The Great Western Railway (GWR) opened their 7 ft 01⁄4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge Salisbury branch line from Westbury on 30 June 1856. The terminus was on the north side of Salisbury on the west side of Fisherton Street. Isambard Kingdom Brunel provided a brick-built station with a wooden train shed to cover the tracks. [1]
Three years later the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) opened a new station alongside on 2 May 1859, south of the GWR and west of Fisherton Street. This replaced their 1847 Milford station on the opposite side of the city. On the same day the first section of the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway was opened as an extension of the LSWR’s line from London Waterloo station. The LSWR station had a single long platform served by trains in both directions and a second bay platform was provided at the London end. As the two railways were built using different different gauges through goods traffic had to be unloaded and transhipped in a transfer shed; a footbridge was opened in 1860 linking the two stations to allow passengers to change trains.
In the 1870s the LSWR opened a second platform east of Fisherton Street for services towards London; it had a entrance from the street and was linked to the old platform by a subway. It too had another bay platform for trains to the East. The GWR converted their line to 4 ft 81⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge in 1874 and four years later a connecting line was laid between the two railways which allowed wagons to be shunted between the two stations. In 1896 a through service between Cardiff on the GWR and Portsmouth on the LSWR began operating over a junction line at Salisbury.
In 1899 the GWR’s engine shed was removed to a new site to allow expansion of the LSWR station. Two new platforms serving three tracks were opened between the GWR platforms and the original LSWR one, reached by a subway from the LSWR’s new station offices which were built on the west side of their original building of 1859. This work was completed in 1902 and the 1870s platform east of Fisherton Street could then be closed.[1] In the early morning of 1 July 1906 an overnight boat train derailed in Salisbury station, killing 24 passengers and 4 railwaymen.[2][3]
Goods traffic was hadled in goods sheds at the west end of the station – north of the GWR station and south of the LSWR station – and also on the 460 yards (420 m) Market House branch from the east end of the LSWR station which opened in 1859. A new LSWR East Yard was opened on the site of the old platform east of Fisherton Street after it had closed in 1902, but the main LSWR goods depot was kept at the old Milford station until 1967.
On 12 September 1932 the GWR’s passenger trains were transferred to the LSWR station. The GWR station remained in use as a goods depot and was used until about 1991 as the base for British Rail’s exhibition trains. The sidings were then redeveloped as Salisbury TMD where South West Trains maintain their fleet of DMUs. Brunel’s passenger buildings are still used as offices by non-railway businesses.[1] In October 2008, English Heritage gave the station building Grade II listed status.[4]
Description
The approach road from the city is accessed from a road junction on the south side of the railway bridge across Fisherton Street. The large building on the right of this approach is the old LSWR buildings of 1859, which now houses the Salisbury signal panel. Immediately next door is the red brick building of 1902, now the main entrance where the ticket office and buffet are located.[1]
The main platform adjacent to the entrance is platform 4 which is mainly used for trains towards Exeter and Cardiff, as is platform 3 opposite. This is one side of an island platform, the opposite side of which is platform 2 which is used by trains to London Waterloo and Portsmouth Harbour. Platform 5 is a bay platform at the west end which is no longer used by passenger trains, and terminal platform 6 is an eastwards extension of platform 4 and is predominantly used by local services to Southampton.
Beyond platform 2 is another disued platform, formerly platform 1. Behind this are the sidings of Salisbury TMD where the trains form the West of England Main Line are maintained. At the east end of this is an old water tank and the brick offices which once served the GWR station.
Services
South West Trains operate services from London Waterloo to Bristol and Exeter, with a small number of the latter extended to Paignton or Plymouth. Since 9 December 2007, a new service operated by South West Trains has run from Salisbury to Romsey (via Southampton Central), taking over the local service via Dean and Mottisfont & Dunbridge. First Great Western also operate services, running between Cardiff and the South Coast.
Alongside the station is Salisbury Depot, where South West Trains maintain their fleet of diesel multiple units.
| Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Warminster | First Great Western Wessex Main Line |
Romsey | ||
| Grateley | South West Trains West of England Main Line |
Tisbury | ||
| South West Trains Wessex Main Line |
Warminster | |||
| Terminus | South West Trains Wessex Main Line |
Dean | ||
| Disused railways | ||||
| Terminus | Southern Region Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway |
Downton | ||
References
- ^ a b c d Oakley, Mike (2004). Wiltshire Railway Stations. Wimbourne: The Dovecote Press. ISBN 1-904349-33-2.
- ^ Rolt, L.T.C. (1956 (and later editions)). Red for Danger. Bodley Head / David and Charles / Pan Books.
- ^ Pattenden, Norman (2001). Salisbury 1906 – An answer to the enigma?. Swindon: South Western Circle. ISBN 0-9503741-6-4.
- ^ Riddle, Annie (20 October 2008). "Listed status for rail station". Salisbury Journal - ThisIsWiltshire.co.uk. http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/3774077.Listed_status_for_rail_station/. Retrieved 2008-10-20.
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