Trains to Salisbury - Station Details and further Information on Salisbury Train Services
Salisbury is a train station serving the city of Salisbury, Wiltshire. Located 84 miles southwest of London Waterloo, the station is the crossing point of the West of England Main Line and the Wessex Main Line. The station is operated by South West Trains.
The approach road from the city is accessed from a road junction on the south side of the railway bridge across Fisherton Street. The large building on the right of this approach is the old LSWR buildings of 1859, which now houses the Salisbury signal panel. Immediately next door is the red brick building of 1902, now the main entrance where the ticket office and buffet are located.
The main platform adjacent to the entrance is platform 4 which is mainly used for trains towards Exeter and Cardiff, as is platform 3 opposite. This is one side of an island platform, the opposite side of which is platform 2 which is used by trains to London Waterloo and Portsmouth Harbour. Platform 5 is a bay platform at the west end which is no longer used by passenger trains, and terminal platform 6 is an eastwards extension of platform 4 and is predominantly used by local services to Southampton.
Beyond platform 2 is another disued platform, formerly platform 1. Behind this are the sidings of Salisbury TMD where the trains form the West of England Main Line are maintained. At the east end of this is an old water tank and the brick offices which once served the GWR station.
South West Trains operate services from London Waterloo to Bristol and Exeter, with a small number of the latter extended to Paignton or Plymouth. Since 9 December 2007, a new service operated by South West Trains has run from Salisbury to Romsey (via Southampton Central), taking over the local service via Dean and Mottisfont & Dunbridge. First Great Western also operate services, running between Cardiff and the South Coast. |