Devizes 52-year wait for train station could end

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Re: Devizes 52-year wait for train station could end

« Reply #45 on: January 31, 2021, 14:25:42 »

https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/19050560.2-000-respond-devizes-station-survey/


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« Reply #46 on: February 15, 2021, 12:33:39 »

https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/19090536.connecting-rail-services-bedwyn-devizes---views-sought/


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« Reply #47 on: March 17, 2021, 06:48:52 »

From the Gazette and Herald

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Long-awaited plans for the return of rail to Devizes have taken a major step forward with the backing of £34,000.

The team behind plans for the Devizes Gateway station are pulling together an ambitious business case to be submitted by the end of this year - which will determine the rail future for the town.

Investigations by Atkins are underway into the current transport challenges facing the town and how a station could combat them, but also into if the currently proposed location for the station, in Lydeway near Urchfont, is the most practical site.

The station will bring a “game-changing transformation” and economic growth to the town, say the Devizes Development Partnership (DDP) however, they have stressed this will not change the fabric of town that is often referred to as the hidden gem in Wiltshire’s crown.


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« Reply #48 on: July 20, 2022, 18:11:54 »

An update on the new Devizies station on ITV West local news at 18:08pm on Wednesday 20 July

Available on ITV plus one


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« Reply #49 on: April 01, 2023, 08:51:07 »

A new station at (or nearish to) Devizes has go itself caught up in the need for a fourth platform face at Westbury which (surprise) cannot be justified based only on the extra station / traffic at Devizes. It strikes me as the same issue that the study of specifying from Newbury to Westbury came up with when the costs were loaded onto the two electric trains a day that would terminate at Westbury, and in contravention of the need to look at the whole picture including the net zero agenda.

More in another thread (I will copy elements here) and on Facebook (here)

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Westbury is a bottleneck and needs a fourth platform to cope not only with more trains from the Devizes direction, but also for a better service from Swindon via Melksham, and a better service to Weymouth. More trains start this May from Bristol and on to Salisbury and it's creaking at the joints. To put the cost of what looks like a platinum solution onto poor little Devizes was never going to work economically. Better to extend the platform out to the track that's there and tell the freight operators to run to time.


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Re: Devizes 52-year wait for train station could end

« Reply #50 on: April 01, 2023, 09:23:47 »

Devizes Parkway study released by Network Rail
This report simply concludes that it is not economic as a standalone station due the impact on the wider railway. The implication is that it has to be oart of a larger scheme to introduce a stopping service along the B&H^▸ , and beyond, which will need reinstatement of the platform at Westbury

https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/our-routes/western/devizes-gateway-feasibility-study/

See also Paul Clifton on Twitter
https://twitter.com/paulcliftonbbc/status/1641718630227296257?s=61&t=VlafMC5gF9tidw36b1Y8JQ


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Re: Devizes 52-year wait for train station could end

« Reply #51 on: April 01, 2023, 09:53:00 »

A very comprehensive and well written report. Hopefully it will pave the way (eventually) for a platform 0 at Westbury and reinstatement of the Bedwyn<>Paddington service to extend to it and serve a new station at Devizes as well as better serve Pewsey.

It’ll be quite a wait though I fear.


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