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Location notes
A small road over bridge, near the village of Broughton Gifford, Melksham is the nearest town. The bridge is over the single line between Chippenham and Westbury.
Railway type and traffic
This line carries the trial TransWilts Community Rail Service of up to four trips a day between Swindon and Westbury.
Heavy freight (stone, engineering and diverted freight liner trains) and diverted West of England express services when the Berks and Hants is closed.
Railtours also use the line from time to time.
The Glastonbury Festival creates interesting additional shuttle services between Swindon and Castle Cary.
Heavy freight (stone, engineering and diverted freight liner trains) and diverted West of England express services when the Berks and Hants is closed.
Railtours also use the line from time to time.
The Glastonbury Festival creates interesting additional shuttle services between Swindon and Castle Cary.
Environment
Mill Lane is a quiet, narrow country lane.
Road directions
Melksham is on the A350 and just south of the town is the B3107 heading west. It is off this road that you will find Mill Lane which crosses the single line between Chippenham and Westbury
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Broughton Gifford, Melksham map co-ordinates
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Parking
You need to be considerate when parking the lane is narrow and requires cars to be parked tight up against the hedges.
Public transport
The zigzag bus (routes 68 and 69) pass by. Also the x96 (and a Saturday morning 14 service) pass the road end (about 100 yards). The location is also walkable from Melksham Station (about a mile) which currently enjoys a train calling about once an hour.
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Amenities
Full facilities are available in Melksham itself - a town of some 25,000 residents. And if you walk the mile between Melksham Station and the location, you'll pass by a large supermarket (Asda) and several other stores.
Accommodation
Well House Manor in Melksham offers overnight accommodation and is the HQ of the local Community Rail Partnership, with a museum room / display of historic pictures and current posters and rail literature.
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Broughton Gifford, Melksham
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Broughton Gifford, Melksham
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Broughton Gifford, Melksham
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Broughton Gifford, Melksham
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Photographic notes
The line runs north east - south west so photography is good most of the day for the southbound services. Northbound can be a challenge as the sun moves round and heavily back lights the scene. Photography is good in both directions.
Gardening gloves and cutters would be useful to clear brambles and a ladder to see over the bridge walls if you are vertically challenged.
Gardening gloves and cutters would be useful to clear brambles and a ladder to see over the bridge walls if you are vertically challenged.
Links to photographs at this location
Nag's Pix ! - Slightly further north.
General views - All photographs © Ken Brunt unless otherwise stated
Fig 1 - Looking north east
Fig 2 - Looking south west
Fig 3 -
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This site has been created to assist railway photographers in their travels around the country. It is based on the personal knowledge and experience. No liability can be held against the web site or its contributions for incorrect information. Trainspots will endeavour to check all information and corrections will be accepted and posted accordingly.
Advice as to the locations general environment is given as a guide on each page. This information is a GUIDE only. ALWAYS be careful with your equipment, Trainspots can not be held responsible for your personal security. Avoid leaving your property on display for all to see, be aware of your surroundings at all times. There are, sadly, people who will not think twice about trying to steal your equipment.
Trainspots DOES NOT condone trespass and none of the information on this site should be taken as a right to trespass on either railway or private land. To the best of our knowledge all locations are publicly accessible areas, where they are not contact information will be given to the appropriate authority for permission to be obtained.
The content of this site is created and intended for all age ranges but the content of sites linked from this site are not subject to the same intentions. Trainspots will attempt to check links for validity but as time passes and the site grows this will not always be possible. Broken, or indeed updates to, links should be submitted to the editor for inclusion in the updates. All links external to the Trainspots site are opened in a new browser window. Trainspots has been running now for over 10 years and there are imitation sites and guides to railfotspots. But we are a free site and we continue on the path we started out on over a decade ago to provide a useful guide to UK Railway Photographic Locations.
