Westbury railway station is a railway station serving the town of Westbury in Wiltshire, England. The station is managed by First Great Western.
The station is a major junction, serving the Reading to Plymouth Line with services to and from Penzance and London Paddington (two-hourly service), Wessex Main Line with services to and from Cardiff and Portsmouth (hourly service), services to Swindon (limited service), Heart of Wessex Line providing local services from Bristol to Weymouth, and services to London Waterloo (limited service) as well as large stone trains from the Mendip quarries.
The buffet at Westbury appeared in a list of "highly commended" station cafes published in The Guardian in 2009.
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