[1] The enthusiasm shown for the eventual coming of the railways to Lacock contrasted sharply with the attitude of the local community half a century earlier, when plans to route the WSWR though the village and provide a station there met with fierce opposition.

Local opinion appears to have shifted fairly rapidly thereafter, as in the decades which followed, occasional petitions were submitted to the GWR requesting that a station serving Lacock be opened on the amended route.

About 100 feet (30 m) in length, each provided waiting passengers with a small rudimentary shelter, fashioned in the GWR pagoda-style out of corrugated iron sheets.

However, by the outbreak of the First World War they had been raised to accommodate standard rolling stock, and the rail-motors were replaced with coaches hauled by steam locomotives in the mid-1920s.

[2][4] In 2014 after much of the undergrowth was cut back, the remains of platforms at Lacock Halt were still clearly visible and in a remarkably good state of preservation, particularly on the northbound side.