- Collingbourne Kingston Halt railway station
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Collingbourne Kingston Halt 
Station site in 2009. Location Place Collingbourne Kingston Area Wiltshire Operations Original company Great Western Railway Platforms ? History 1932 Opened 11 Sep 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–ZCollingbourne Kingston Halt was a small railway station that served the village of Collingbourne Kingston in Wiltshire, England for less than 30 years. The station was on the former Midland and South Western Junction Railway, which was a north-south through-route between the Midlands and the south coast ports and which had been built through Collingbourne Kingston in 1882.
The M&SWJR did not provide a station at Collingbourne Kingston, which was served by Collingbourne railway station at Collingbourne Ducis, 1.5 miles away. But in 1932, after the M&SWJR had been taken over by the Great Western Railway in the 1923 Grouping, a halt was built for the village in an effort to generate traffic in the face of competition from road transport. The construction of the station was fairly rudimentary: railway sleeper platforms with corrugated iron shelters. No staff were ever provided and tickets were sold at No 54 High Street, though that house was destroyed in an air accident during the Second World War.(Correction: The part destroyed house was called no. 54 at the time, but the tickets were sold from the house that is currently no. 54 after some renumbering (a family called Palmer), and still exists)
Traffic on the M&SWJR line declined heavily after the war and the line closed to passenger and goods traffic in 1961. There are no traces of Collingbourne Kingston Halt today, apart from a road bridge over the former line.
Routes
Preceding station Disused railways Following station Grafton and Burbage
Line and station closedMidland and South Western Junction Railway
Swindon, Marlborough and Andover RailwayCollingbourne
Line and station closedReferences
- Wiltshire Railway Stations, Mike Oakley, Dovecote Press, Wimborne, 2004, ISBN 1-904349-33-1, pages 43–44
Coordinates: 51°18′06″N 1°39′24″W / 51.30161°N 1.65656°W
Closed railway stations in Wiltshire Bristol and North Somerset Railway Salisbury Branch Line Devizes Branch Line Reading to Taunton line Patney and Chirton · Woodborough · Manningford Halt · Wootton Rivers Halt · Savernake Low LevelChippenham and Calne Line Midland and South Western Junction Railway Cricklade · Moredon Platform · Rushey Platt · Swindon Town · Chiseldon · Chiseldon Camp · Ogbourne · Marlborough Low Level · Marlborough High Level · Savernake High Level · Grafton and Burbage · Collingbourne Kingston Halt · Collingbourne · Ludgershall · TidworthGreat Western Main Line Box · Box (Mill Lane) Halt · Corsham · Christian Malford Halt · Dauntsey · Wootton Bassett · Wootton Bassett Road · Stratton Park HaltHighworth branch line Stratton · Stanton · Hannington · HighworthGolden Valley Line Oaksey Halt · Minety and Ashton Keynes · PurtonWessex Main Line Lacock Halt · Beanacre Halt · Broughton Gifford Halt · Holt Junction · Staverton HaltBulford Camp Branch South Wales Main Line Hullavington · Little Somerford · Brinkworth · Great SomerfordOther lines Dinton · Downton · Edington and Bratton · Idmiston Halt · Lavington · Malmesbury · Porton · Semley · Wilton SouthCategories:- Disused railway stations in Wiltshire
- Former Great Western Railway stations
- Railway stations opened in 1932
- Railway stations closed in 1961
- South West England railway station stubs
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