Devizes branch line

Devizes Branch
Wessex Main Line
to Trowbridge
 Holt Junction
Wessex Main Line
to Melksham
 Semington Halt
 Seend
 Bromham and Rowde Halt
 Devizes
 Pans Lane Halt
Reading to Taunton Line
to Westbury
 Patney and Chirton
Reading to Taunton Line
to Pewsey

The Devizes branch line was a railway line from Holt Junction (south-west of Melksham) to Patney and Chirton (south-east of Devizes), in Wiltshire, England. It was named after Devizes, the largest town on the line. The branch was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1857, and from 1862 when the Reading-Hungerford line reached Devizes it became part of the shortest route from London to the West Country. Those services were re-routed in 1900, and the line closed in 1966.

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