Downton railway station

50°59′35″N 1°44′21″W / 50.993011°N 1.739147°W / 50.993011; -1.739147Grid referenceSU1840421545Platforms2Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryPre-groupingSalisbury & Dorset Junction Railway
London and South Western RailwayPost-groupingSouthern Railway
Southern Region of British RailwaysKey dates20 December 1866Opened4 May 1964Closed

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.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Salisbury		British Rail Southern Region Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway		Breamore

External links

• Downton Station at Subterranea Britannica

Further reading

• R.V.J. Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1
• Whitmarsh, Julia (2011). "Memories of Dad and Downton Station". The Southern Way (16): 68–83. ISBN 9781906419639.