Westbury

Westbury
Description	The lines in the Westbury area
Country	United Kingdom
Time period	2023
Train Operating Company	Great Western Railway, South Western Railway
Simulation difficulty
Author	Oxalin
Repository	Westbury
Website	Westbury
Rolling Stock	Class 158 Class 159 Class 165 Class 166 Class 800 Class 802
Route map Bath Reading Trowbridge Lafarge Sidings Down Trowbridge Siding Westbury Whatley Quarry Dilton Marsh Frome Salisbury Merehead Quarry Bruton Castle Cary Heart of Wessex Line Somerton Engineer's Siding Somerton Tunnel Taunton

Westbury is a small junction station on the Great Western Main Line between London and Cornwall. Most long distance services don't actually stop at Westbury, using the avoiding lines instead, however there are plenty of local and regional services through the station to keep a signaller occupied. This simulation also includes Frome (also on a loop from the main line), and the line out to Castle Cary, where the Heart of Wessex Line diverges towards Yeovil and Weymouth.

Timetable

The timetable included represents a Wednesday in March 2023, running from 04:20 until about 03:30 then next morning, with the following standard off peak services:

Westbury Services
Train Operating Company	Origin	Destination	Frequency (tph)
Great Western Railway	London Paddington	Plymouth (avoiding Westbury)	1
		Plymouth (via Westbury)	0.5
	Portsmouth Harbour	Cardiff Central	1
	Swindon	Westbury	0.5
	Gloucester	Weymouth	0.5
South Western Railway	London Waterloo	Yeovil Pen Mill	Irregular

There are additional peak services to various destinations, as well as a variety of freight services to the quarries in the area.

Operational Tips

• Keep an eye on the platform allocations given in the description of each train for Westbury - if you stick to these everything should work.
• Its a good idea to set points for the route you want before actually setting the route - this is due to the amount of bi-directional track, and helps avoid blocking up the throats to the larger stations by mistake.