Memories of Marlborough Station

From an important independent cross-country route through the status of a vital link between the Midlands and the South coast and ending up as a rural backwater, the erstwhile Midland & South Western Junction line through Marlborough had witnessed it all. Here for the first time is a personal account of the station and its environs in its final years and compiled by someone who really was in the know, Richard James the son of the last Marlborough station master.