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Savernake Low Level railway station was a station on the Berks and Hants Extension Railway. ==History== The Berks and Hants Extension Railway, which ran from to , opened on 11 November 1862, and the station named ''Savernake'' was opened with the line. It was situated between and stations. On 15 April 1864, the Marlborough Railway opened the short branch line to Marlborough, which was operated by the Great Western and then taken over by it, and Savernake became a junction. When the Reading to Taunton line was created and the Stert to Westbury cut-off opened in 1900, the platforms at Savernake were lengthened, the footbridge roofed and brick waiting rooms provided on the down platform. Until 1916, Savernake then had six trains a day, plus up to six slip coaches from Paddington, the fastest covering the to Savernake in 75 minutes. In the 1950s Savernake had ten trains a day on the main line, seven to Marlborough and two other Midland and South Western Junction Railway trains.〔Railway Magazine March 1958 T B Sands: Savernake, a Railway Crossroads in Wiltshire pp. 195-201〕 On 1 July 1924, the station was renamed ''Savernake Low Level''; the nearby station on the former Midland and South Western Junction Railway line becoming ' at the same time.〔 The station was renamed ''Savernake for Marlborough'' on 11 September 1961 when the High Level station officially closed;〔 in practice, through trains on the former M&SWJR had used Savernake Low Level for some time because of a landslip on the original line. The station closed on 18 April 1966.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Savernake Low Level railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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