Chippenham railway station is the railway station serving Chippenham a market town in Wiltshire. The station is on the Great Western Main Line, in between Swindon and Bath Spa and is served by First Great Western Main Line services between Bristol Temple Meads and London Paddington, and a smaller First Great Western local service that runs between Swindon and Trowbridge, via Chippenham and Melksham over the northern end of the former Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway. It was also the junction for a GWR branch line to Calne from 1863 until its closure (a victim of the Beeching Axe) in 1965. Only two of the three platforms at the station are now in use (the two faces of the island platform to the right of the photo) - the former platform one (on the left) having lost its rails.