The former fertilizer distribution depot has been closed for a

number of years but remains rail connected. I suspect that Network Rail will be pleased that they have kept the depot site as it is now to become the home to the contractors involved in the much delayed and hugely over-budget GWML electrification. The sidings were once the temporary home to an assortment of withdrawn coaching stock and, for a while locomotives that included 50017 'Ark Royal'. I recall that on a Sunday evening in the late 1990s I witnessed one of the MK. 1 coaches in the process of being gutted by fire as I passed on a train with the Wiltshire fire brigade in attendance. I hope that the mindless vandals were pleased with their efforts at destroying a piece of our railway heritage.