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Chippenham railway station

Index Chippenham railway station

Chippenham railway station is on the Great Western Main Line (GWML) in South West England, serving the town of Chippenham, Wiltshire. [1]

39 relations: Ancient Rome, Ashlar, Bath Spa railway station, Bath stone, Bowerhill, Bristol Temple Meads railway station, BTR plc, Chippenham, Chippenham and Calne line, Closed-circuit television, Devon, Go-Op (train operating company), Great Western main line, Great Western Railway, Great Western Railway (train operating company), Hawker Siddeley, Invensys, Invensys Rail Group, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Knorr-Bremse, Listed building, Network Rail, Oxford University Press, Railway air brake, Railway electrification system, Railway signalling, Rowland Brotherhood, Security alarm, Siemens, South Wales, South West England, Taunton, Triumphal arch, Viaduct, Wessex Main Line, Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company Ltd, Westinghouse Rail Systems, Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway, Wiltshire.

Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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Ashlar

Ashlar is finely dressed (cut, worked) stone, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared or the structure built of it.

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Bath Spa railway station

Bath Spa railway station is the principal station serving the city of Bath, South West England.

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Bath stone

Bath Stone is an oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate.

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Bowerhill

Bowerhill is an outer suburb of Melksham, Wiltshire, England, belonging to the civil parish of Melksham Without.

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Bristol Temple Meads railway station

Bristol Temple Meads is the oldest and largest railway station in Bristol, England.

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BTR plc

BTR plc was a British multinational industrial conglomerate company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Chippenham

Chippenham is a large historic market town in northwest Wiltshire, England.

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Chippenham and Calne line

The Chippenham and Calne line was a five mile long single-track branch railway line that ran along the valley of the River Marden in Wiltshire, England, from on the Great Western Main Line to, via two intermediate halts.

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Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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Go-Op (train operating company)

Go-Op (full name Go-op Cooperative Ltd), is an open access train operating company which is currently proposing to operate a service between Taunton and Swindon, via Westbury.

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Great Western main line

The Great Western main line is a main line railway in England, that runs westwards from London Paddington to.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.

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Great Western Railway (train operating company)

First Greater Western Limited, trading as Great Western Railway (GWR), is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that operates the Greater Western railway franchise.

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Hawker Siddeley

Hawker Siddeley was a group of British manufacturing companies engaged in aircraft production.

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Invensys

Invensys Ltd. was a multinational engineering and information technology company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Invensys Rail Group

Invensys Rail Group was a division of Invensys, a UK-based multinational engineering company.

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (9 April 1806 – 15 September 1859), was an English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions".

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Knorr-Bremse

Knorr-Bremse ("Bremse" meaning brake) is a manufacturer of braking systems for rail and commercial vehicles that has operated in the field for over 110 years.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Network Rail

Network Rail is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the rail network in England, Scotland and Wales.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Railway air brake

A railway air brake is a railway brake power braking system with compressed air as the operating medium.

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Railway electrification system

A railway electrification system supplies electric power to railway trains and trams without an on-board prime mover or local fuel supply.

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Railway signalling

Railway signalling is a system used to direct railway traffic and keep trains clear of each other at all times.

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Rowland Brotherhood

Rowland Brotherhood (or sometimes Roland Brotherhood) was a British engineer.

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Security alarm

A security alarm is a system designed to detect intrusion – unauthorized entry – into a building or other area.

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Siemens

Siemens AG is a German conglomerate company headquartered in Berlin and Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad.

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South Wales

South Wales (De Cymru) is the region of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west.

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South West England

South West England is one of nine official regions of England.

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Taunton

Taunton is a large regional town in Somerset, England.

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Triumphal arch

A triumphal arch is a monumental structure in the shape of an archway with one or more arched passageways, often designed to span a road.

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Viaduct

A viaduct is a bridge composed of several small spans for crossing a valley, dry or wetland, or forming an overpass or flyover.

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Wessex Main Line

The Wessex Main Line is the railway line from Bristol Temple Meads to Southampton Central.

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Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company Ltd

The Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company Ltd was created in 1935 when the Westinghouse Brake & Saxby Signal Company Ltd, dropped the 'Saxby' from their title.

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Westinghouse Rail Systems

Westinghouse Rail Systems Ltd (formerly Westinghouse Signals Ltd) was a British supplier of railway signalling and control equipment to the rail industry worldwide.

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Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway

The Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway (WS&WR) obtained Parliamentary powers in 1845 to build a railway from near Chippenham to Salisbury and Weymouth.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chippenham_railway_station

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