British Rail totem sign sale reveals poetic tale of Dilton Marsh
When all the horrible roads are finally done for, and there’s no more petrol left in the world to burn, here to the halt from Salisbury and from Bristol, steam trains will return. So wrote John Betjeman in his 1969 in his poem in defence of the closure-threatened Dilton Marsh Halt.
The ‘Halt’ station opened by the Great Western Railway in June 1937 never did return. However, in 19…