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Swindon railway station is a main line railway station serving the town of Swindon in Wiltshire, South West England. It is an important junction, where the former Great Western Railway line to and , the Great Western Main Line to Bristol Temple Meads and the South Wales Main Line route to and South Wales diverge. The station is managed by Great Western Railway (GWR), who operate all trains serving it. It is approximately from the central bus station and the town centre. It is served by GWR services from London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads, , Cheltenham Spa via Gloucester, Swansea and the rest of South Wales. There is also an early morning service to Southampton which originates at Gloucester reversing at Swindon. == History == With the railway passing through the town in early 1841, the Goddard Arms public house in Old Swindon was used as a railway booking office in lieu of a station. Tickets purchased included the fare for a horse-drawn carriage to the line at the bottom of the hill. Swindon railway station opened in 1842 with construction of the Great Western Railway's engineering works continuing. Until 1895, every train stopped here for at least 10 minutes to change locomotives. Swindon station hosted the first recorded railway refreshment rooms, divided according to class. Swindonians, for a time, were eminently proud that even the current King and Queen of the time had partaken of refreshments there.〔 The station in 1842 was built of three storeys, with the refreshment rooms on the ground floor, the upper floors comprising the station hotel and lounge. Until 1961, when Swindon Town station closed, the station was known as Swindon Junction. The building was demolished in 1972, with today's modern station and office block erected on the site.〔 The Travel Centre (i.e. booking office) at Swindon was APTIS-equipped by the end of October 1986, making it one of the very first stations with the ticketing system which was eventually found across the UK at all staffed British Rail stations by the end of the 1980s. On 2 June 2003 Platform 4 opened. Prior to this all westbound trains had used Platform 3 and eastbound services Platform 1. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Swindon railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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