Salisbury and South East Wiltshire are key parts of a beautiful, prosperous and highly productive county, set to see major economic growth with up to 10,000 new jobs by 2031.
Tourism is a vital part of Wiltshire’s economy, with Stonehenge alone welcoming more than 1.3 million visitors in 2014.
Many more passengers are using the County’s rail network – up by 24% since 2004 at Salisbury and 66% at Westbury. But this success offers challenges in making it easy to get to city centre stations such as Salisbury or to get to Stonehenge other than by car.
A new station immediately adjacent to the existing Salisbury Park & Ride facility at Wilton, on the Salisbury-Bristol railway line, and only 6 miles south of Stonehenge, can:
- Provide new capacity for passengers to access the National Rail Network using direct trains to London, Southampton, Swindon, Bristol and Cardiff
- Support sustainable access to Salisbury with a highly attractive 5 minute journey time
- Offer a fast, high capacity rail-bus link to the World Heritage Site at Stonehenge
TransWilts and Wilton Town Council are pleased to start discussions in 2015 with local
stakeholders, Wiltshire Council, the Swindon and Wiltshire LEP, English Heritage, the Department for Transport, Network Rail, First Great Western (GWR) and South West Trains to begin the development of the case for this exciting scheme.
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