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Westbury-on-Severn Halt railway station

railway station in Westbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, England, UK, now closed

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ112425332 ↗
Source-derived summary

Westbury-on-Severn Halt railway station served the village of Westbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, England, from 1928 to 1959 on the South Wales Railway.

History

The station was opened on 9 July 1928 by the Great Western Railway. It closed on 10 August 1959.

References

Parkhouse, Neil (2013a). "9. Chepstow to Grange Court Junction". West Gloucester & Wye Valley Lines. British Railway History In Colour. Vol. 1.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Westbury-on-Severn Halt railway station” is railway station in Westbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, England, UK, now closed. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Westbury-on-Severn, Halt and railway, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928, 1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Westbury-on-Severn, Halt and railway is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “railway station in Westbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, England, UK, now closed” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q112425332. Authority coordinates are 51.828, -2.420. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1928 and 1959.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Westbury-on-Severn Halt railway station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Westbury-on-Severn Halt railway station primary sources, Westbury-on-Severn Halt railway station archive and Westbury-on-Severn research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Westbury-on-Severn Halt railway station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Westbury-on-Severn Halt railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.