Place Downton Grid reference SU1840421545 Platforms in use 2 | Area Wiltshire 20 December 1866 Opened | |
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Pre-grouping Salisbury & Dorset Junction Railway
London and South Western Railway Post-grouping Southern Railway
Southern Region of British Railways Similar Oaksey Halt railway st, Box railway station, Savernake Low Level railway st, Limpley Stoke railway st, Calne railway station | ||
Downton was a railway station serving Downton, a village in Wiltshire. The village contained a large tanning mill on the River Avon, which has now closed, and has been redeveloped as residential property. The station was one of many casualties of the mass closure of British railway lines in the 1960s and 1970s; the last service was on 2 May 1964. It was served by the Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway, a line running North-South, along the River Avon just to the West of the New Forest, connecting Salisbury to the North and Poole to the South, meeting the Southampton and Dorchester Railway at West Moors.
Today, the site of the station is a residential estate.
The fictional Downton station of the early 20th century, depicted in the ITV drama series Downton Abbey, was created at Horsted Keynes on the Bluebell Railway in Sussex.