 When it was open, Amesbury was the nearest station to Stonehenge and carried a lot of traffic to the military areas in and around Salisbury Plain, particularly during the Second World War in the preparations for D-Day.Opened on 2 June 1902 by the Amesbury and Military Camp Light Railway, and becoming part of the London and South Western Railway, the station was absorbed by the Southern Railway during the Grouping of 1923.It then passed on to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.