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The DDP team (photo taken before lockdown) One of the team members behind Devizes's future station has spoken of the three 'main aims' for the service moving forward. The town is the largest in the county without its own personal set of working rails for the public, a problem that the Devizes Development Partnership (DDP) have been working to change. The Department for Transport (Dft) have now agreed to fund a study into the potential for a new rail station called Devizes Gateway, which about 3.4 miles from Devizes Market Place, close to Lydeway. A feasibility study into the rail stat...

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 Salisb...