Christian Malford Halt

This view, made with a Pentax Optio S30 camera in midsummer 2006, is from the road leading from Foxham West End to Christian Malford, Wilts. On the horizon is Brunel's railway between London and Bristol. This section was built in 1841 and later, in 1926, the Great Western provided a halt of which no trace remains save for the ascent up the embankment. (The grey ramp in the centre; not the new white flight of steps on the left which are much more recent). There was a matching path on the other side for London-bound trains. The halt consisted of two timber platforms, each with a wooden shelter.
The village of Christian Malford is about half a mile beyond the bridge in the distance. Extravagantly they have named the street leading to the halt (which closed in 1965) 'Station Road', although the amenity was never called a station by the locals when it existed, and the road was already named 'Frog Lane' as evidenced by census entries of the Victorian period. This is what happens when a village is colonised by new people who have no history to draw on, and no research ability.