 Rushey Platt became a junction the following year with the opening of the Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railway as far as Cirencester Watermoor.The SM&AR and the S&CER combined to form the M&SWJR in 1884.Services between the two Swindon stations ceased in 1885 because of the high charges the GWR imposed on M&SWJR trains.