Trowbridge railway station

Trowbridge
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Location
Place	Trowbridge
Local authority	Wiltshire
Coordinates
Grid reference	ST851578
Operations
Station code	TRO
Managed by	Great Western Railway
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03	0.462 million
2004/05	0.514 million
2005/06	0.543 million
2006/07	0.584 million
2007/08	0.571 million
2008/09	0.612 million
2009/10	0.652 million
2010/11	0.740 million
2011/12	0.779 million
2012/13	0.790 million
2013/14	0.850 million
2014/15	0.903 million
History
Original company	Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Western Railway
Post-grouping	Great Western Railway
1848	Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Trowbridge from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Trowbridge railway station is a railway station on the Wessex Main Line serving the town of Trowbridge in Wiltshire, England. The station is 24 miles (39 km) south east of Bristol Temple Meads and is managed by Great Western Railway.

Originally opened by the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway in 1848 as part of their Thingley Junction to Westbury line, it gained a link to Bath and Bristol nine years later thanks to the Great Western Railway. This is now the main line, as the original route to Chippenham has been singled and reduced to secondary status.

Description

The small station building is located on the northbound platform (platform 1). This platform is for trains to Bath. Bristol and Cardiff. Platform 2, on the southbound line is for trains to Westbury, London and the South Coast.

The station building contains a ticket office. Inside, there are benches, vending machines and one of the two electronic information signs. There are toilet facilities. Metro newspapers are available and other outdoor seating areas. On Platform 1 are covered bike stands and benches. Platform 2 has an electronic display sign, bike racks, train timetables and a small shelter with benches.

Services

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A train to Portsmouth

Regular service (at present half-hourly each way Mon-Sat, hourly on Sundays) is provided by Great Western Railway (train operating company) to Bath Spa, Bristol Temple Meads and either Gloucester or Cardiff Central northbound and Weymouth or Southampton and Portsmouth in the south.

The original WS&WR line diverges to the north of Trowbridge, formerly carried a limited passenger service (two per day each way Mon-Sat, one each way on Sundays) to/from Swindon via Melksham and Chippenham. This was improved to a two-hourly service (8 trains each way total on weekdays, 5 each way on Sundays) at the December 2013 timetable change. Two services continue beyond Swindon through to Cheltenham Spa on weekdays only.

The station is served by a limited service between Bristol Temple Meads and London Waterloo (3 per day Mondays to Saturdays, 2 on Sundays) by South West Trains.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Bradford-on-Avon		Great Western Railway Great Malvern/Gloucester - Westbury/South Coast		Westbury
Melksham		Great Western Railway Swindon - Westbury
Bradford-on-Avon		Great Western Railway Cardiff Central - Portsmouth Harbour		Westbury
		South West Trains London Waterloo - Bristol (Limited Service)