Wilton station was opened with the first section of the
Salisbury and Yeovil Railway on 2 May 1859. At first just used for passenger traffic, goods were also handled from 1 September the next year. The Salisbury and Yeovil Railway was amalgamated into the
London and South Western Railway (LSWR) in 1878. In 1923 the LSWR became part of the
Southern Railway, which in turn was
nationalised in 1948 to become the
Southern Region of British Railways. This was the second station in Wilton, the
Great Western Railway (GWR) having
opened one on their adjacent route in 1856. To avoid confusion between the two, this station became 'Wilton South' in September 1949, and at the same time the former GWR station became "Wilton North". The North station closed to passengers in 1955 but goods continued to be handled there until 1965. In the meantime, at the South station goods traffic ceased on 6 July 1964 and passenger services were withdrawn on 7 March 1966. The station was used for passengers a few times in the 1970s during engineering works. Fast expresses such as the
Devon Belle that were not scheduled to stop at nearby sometimes changed locomotives here so as to avoid congestion at Salisbury. The stop was not advertised in the timetables and passengers could not join or alight from trains at Wilton. ==Signalling==