Photo Gallery
Burbage Railway Stations
Many photographs have been taken over the years of Burbage's 3 railway stations. The first two (courtesy of Robert Dickens) where taken around 1960.
The first shows the GWR Savernake Low Level looking east from the road bridge with a London Paddington bound train seeming to be doing brisk business.
The second is of the abandoned trackbed of the Savernake High Level of the Midland & South Western Railway. The main station buildings (hidden in the bushes on the right) are now a house. On the left is the Ailesbury's waiting room which has now been developed into an annex of the house.
This third view was taken in 1938 and shows a London bound train pulling into Savernake Low Level while the Marlborough branch train waits patiently by its platform. It looks like a group of schoolgirls have alighted from it and are waiting to catch the arriving train. With war being declared the following year and the then worn out railways being nationalised in 1948, this scene perhaps catches the GWR at its romantic best.
© Colin Younger 1999 & 2005