Have your say about a new rail station for Devizes It’s full steam ahead for ambitious plans for a new station to serve the Devizes community. The Department for Transport is funding a study into the potential for a new rail station called Devizes Gateway, about 3.4 miles from Devizes Market Place, close to Lydeway, to serve the Devizes area. Noël Woolrych, Devizes Development Partnership Director, said: “It is expected that there would be an hourly service: east to Pewsey, Newbury, Reading and London and west to Westbury, for connections to the South West, Bath, Bristol and Salisbury etc.