Westbury railway station

Westbury railway station is a railway station serving the town of Westbury in Wiltshire, England. The station is managed by Great Western Railway.The station is a major junction, serving the Reading to Taunton line with services to and from Penzance and London Paddington, Wessex Main Line with services to and from Cardiff and Portsmouth, services to Swindon, Heart of Wessex Line providing local services from Bristol to Weymouth, and services to London Waterloo.The buffet at Westbury appeared in a list of "highly commended" station cafes published in The Guardian in 2009.HistoryThe station was opened by the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway (WS&WR) on 5 September 1848, and was the initial terminus of the WS&WR line from. This line was later extended to, which opened on 7 October 1850. The Salisbury branch opened on 30 June 1856, whilst the opening of the line to Patney & Chirton in 1900 (along with that further west from Castle Cary to Cogload Junction six years later) completed the GWR's new main line from London Paddington to and beyond.