Trains to Chippenham - Station Details and further Information on Chippenham Train Services
Chippenham train station is the train station serving Chippenham in Wiltshire. The station is on the Great Western Main Line, in between Swindon and Bath Spa. It is a rural station, with just two services regularly stopping, the First Great Western Main Line between Bristol Temple Meads and London Paddington, and a smaller First Great Western local service that runs between Swindon and Trowbridge, via Chippenham and Melksham over the northern end of the former Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway. It was also the junction for a GWR branch line to Calne from 1863 until its closure (a victim of the Beeching Axe) in 1965. Only two of the three platforms at the station are now in use (the two faces of the island platform to the right of the photo) - the former platform one (on the left) having lost its rails.
The station has frequent services to Swindon, Reading & London and to Bath & Bristol Temple Meads, with some Bristol trains continuing to Weston-super-Mare and beyond. Currently these operate approximately every half hour in each direction Mon-Sat, with seven through services to/from Weston-super-Mare (these run mainly during the weekday business peaks, although certain summer Saturday trains also operate). There is an hourly service each way on Sundays.
The service to Trowbridge & Westbury is much less frequent, with just one morning and one evening train each way per day since 2006 (compared to five each way prior to that). At present both Mon-Fri services run to Southampton Central, although those in the opposite direction start from Westbury. There are also two Saturday services each way (but at completely different times to the weekday ones) and a single train each way on Sundays. |
