Thanks for watching.... 1. Amesbury railway station 2. Black Dog Halt railway station 3. Box (Mill Lane) Halt railway station 4. Box railway station 5. Bromham and Rowde Halt railway station 6. Broughton Gifford Halt railway station 7. Bulford railway station 8. Calne railway station 9. Chiseldon Camp railway station 10. Chiseldon railway station 11. Christian Malford Halt railway station 12. Codford railway station 13. Collingbourne Kingston Halt railway station 14. Collingbourne railway station 15. Corsham railway station 16. Cricklade railway station 17. Dauntsey railway station 18. Devizes railway station 19. Dinton railway station 20. Downton railway station 21. Edington and Bratton railway station 22. Grafton and Burbage railway station 23. Hannington railway station 24. Heytesbury railway station 25. Holt Junction railway station 26. Langford railway station (Wiltshire) 27. Lavington railway station 28. Limpley Stoke 29. Limpley Stoke railway station 30. Malmesbury railway station 31. Manningford Halt railway station 32. Marlborough railway stations 33. Midford Halt railway station 34. Minety and Ashton Keynes railway station 35. Moredon Halt railway station 36. Oaksey Halt railway station 37. Ogbourne railway station 38. Pans Lane Halt railway station 39. Patney and Chirton railway station 40. Purton railway station 41. Rushey Platt railway station 42. Savernake Low Level railway station 43. Seend railway station 44. Semington Halt railway station 45. Semley railway station 46. Stanley Bridge Halt railway station 47. Stratton Park Halt railway station 48. Swindon Town railway station 49. Wilton North railway station 50. Wilton South railway station 51. Wishford railway station 52. Woodborough railway station 53. Wootton Bassett railway stations 54. Wootton Rivers Halt railway station 55. Wylye railway station
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Ghost stations is the usual English translation for the German word Geisterbahnhöfe. This term was used to describe certain stations on Berlin's U-Bahn and S-Bahn metro networks that were closed during the period of Berlin's division during the Cold War. Since then, the term has come to be used to describe any disused station on an underground railway line, especially those actively passed through by passenger trains.
An abandoned (or disused) railway station is a building or structure which was constructed to serve as a railway station but has fallen into disuse. There are various circumstances when this may occur - a railway company may fall bankrupt, or the station may be closed due to the failure of economic activitiy such as insufficient passenger numbers, operational reasons such as the diversion or replacement of the line. In some instances, the railway line may continue in operation while the station is closed. Additionally, stations may sometimes be resited along the route of the line to new premises - examples of this include opening a replacement station nearer to the centre of population, or building a larger station on a less restricted site to cope with high passenger numbers.
Notable cases where railway stations have fallen into disuse include the Beeching Axe, a 1960s programme of mass closures of unprofitable railway lines by the British Government. The London Underground system is also noted for its list of closed stations. During the time of the Berlin Wall, a number of Berlin U-Bahn stations on West Berlin lines became "ghost stations" (Geisterbahnhöfe) because they were on lines which passed through East Berlin territory.
Railway stations and lines which fall into disuse may become overgrown. Some former railway lines are repurposed as managed nature reserves, trails or other tourist attractions - for example Hellfire Pass, the route of the former "Death Railway" in Thailand. Many former railways are converted into long-distance cycleways, such as large sections of the National Cycle Network in the United Kingdom. In rural areas, former railway station buildings are often converted into private residences. Examples include many of the stations on
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