Look up GWR, gwr, or gŵr in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. GWR may refer to: Great Western Railway, former British railway company (1833–1947) Great...
Click to read more »First Greater Western Ltd, trading as Great Western Railway (GWR), is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that provides services in...
Click to read more »The GWR 5700 Class (or 57xx class) is a class of 0-6-0PT steam locomotive built by the Great Western Railway (GWR) and British Railways (BR) between 1929...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales...
Click to read more »network were: GWR FM Bristol, which was launched in 1981 as Radio West. It relaunched as GWR in 1985 GWR FM Bath, first broadcast as GWR Radio Bath in...
Click to read more »GWR County Class may refer to the Great Western Railway County Class steam locomotives: GWR 3800 Class "Churchward County" 4-4-0 GWR 2221 Class 4-4-2 tank...
Click to read more »Western Railway (GWR) and Azuma by London North Eastern Railway (LNER), is a type of bi-mode multiple unit train built by Hitachi Rail for GWR and LNER. The...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) never constructed a locomotive class with a number series from 8000 or named after Cathedrals. The name and or number...
Click to read more »The GWR 1400 Class is a class of steam locomotive designed by the Great Western Railway for branch line passenger work. It was originally classified as...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 6000 Class or King Class is a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotives designed for express passenger work and introduced in 1927...
Click to read more »The GWR 5600 Class is a class of 0-6-2T steam locomotive built between 1924 and 1928. They were designed by Charles Collett for the Great Western Railway...
Click to read more »locomotives designed by George Jackson Churchward for the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1906 and introduced from early 1907. The prototype was built as a 4-4-2...
Click to read more »The first Locomotives of the Great Western Railway (GWR) were specified by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but Daniel Gooch was soon appointed as the railway's...
Click to read more »engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR) in the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1922. Churchward was born at Rowes Farm...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4200 Class is a class of 2-8-0T steam locomotives. After the GWR took over operations and then absorbed the various South...
Click to read more »The GWR Toad is a class of railway brake van, designed by and built for the Great Western Railway. Used by the GWR from 1894, and post-1947 by the Western...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4500 Class or Small Prairie is a class of 2-6-2T steam locomotives. They were designed as small mixed traffic locomotives...
Click to read more »The GWR 5101 Class or 'Large Prairie' is a class of 2-6-2T type steam locomotives of the Great Western Railway. The 5101 Class were medium-sized tank...
Click to read more »500 employees of the Great Western Railway (GWR) who were killed in the conflict. One-third of the GWR's workforce of almost 80,000 left to fight in the...
Click to read more »Llygad Gŵr (fl. 1268 or 1258 – c. 1293,) was a Welsh-language poet in the court of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd. His surviving works are a sequence of five awdlau...
Click to read more »and millions abroad". The first engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR), he was responsible for the design and construction of its London–Bristol...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4700 Class was a class of nine 2-8-0 steam locomotives, designed by George Jackson Churchward. They were introduced in...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2884 Class is a class of 2-8-0 steam locomotive. They were Collett's development of Churchward's earlier 2800 Class and...
Click to read more »class were preserved. GWR 3100/5100 Class (1906) GWR 5101 Class GWR 6100 Class GWR 3100 Class (1938) GWR 8100 Class List of GWR standard classes with...
Click to read more »be a highly successful class which established the design principles for GWR 2-cylinder classes over the next fifty years, and influenced similar classes...
Click to read more »GWR No. 1340 Trojan is a preserved 0-4-0ST steam locomotive, built in 1897 (Works No. 1386) by the Avonside Engine Company of Bristol, England. Trojan...
Click to read more »Heart 96.3 (formerly GWR FM Bristol) was an Independent Local Radio station serving Bristol and surrounding areas and broadcasting on 96.3 MHz in Bristol...
Click to read more »commercial radio company formed from the merger of the Capital Radio Group and GWR Group. The merger was completed on 9 May 2005. It was listed on the London...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) GWR 5100 Class (known as the 3100 class between 1912 and 1927) was a class of 2-6-2T side tank steam locomotives. It was...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 1500 Class is a class of 0-6-0PT type steam locomotive. Despite being a GWR Hawksworth design, all ten (nos 1500–1509)...
Click to read more »(GWR) 4200 Class No. 4277 is a preserved British steam locomotive. In preservation it has carried the name Hercules. No. 4277 was built at the GWR's Swindon...
Click to read more »Western Railway (GWR) 5400 Class was a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive. They were similar in appearance to many other GWR tank engines but...
Click to read more »The GWR 6100 Class is a class of 2-6-2T side tank steam locomotives. The class was designed by Charles Collett and introduced in 1931, and were a straightforward...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 6400 Class is a class of 0-6-0PT type steam locomotives introduced by Charles Collett in 1932. All 40 examples were 'auto-fitted'...
Click to read more »From 1920, the cab side of Great Western Railway (GWR) steam locomotives bore a letter on a coloured disc, which enabled staff to quickly assess the capabilities...
Click to read more »and the only one of its type built by the GWR. There are differing views as to why Churchward and the GWR should have built a Pacific locomotive in 1908...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2800 Class is a class of steam locomotive designed in 1903 by George Jackson Churchward. Members of the class have a 2-8-0...
Click to read more »Valley lines. Due to the popularity of railcar No. 1, in February 1934 the GWR ordered a further six production units, Nos. 2 to 7, which were built with...
Click to read more »the class were scrapped. GWR 3100/5100 Class (1906) GWR 3150 Class GWR 5101 Class GWR 6100 Class GWR 8100 Class List of GWR standard classes with two...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 1366 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotives built in 1934. They were a useful design because of their...
Click to read more »original carriages survive in preservation. The original backers of the GWR had adopted Isambard Kingdom Brunel's plan to speed trans-Atlantic Ocean...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4575 Class is a class of 2-6-2T British steam locomotives. They were designed as small mixed traffic branch locomotives...
Click to read more »The GWR 4300 Class was a class of 2-6-0 steam locomotives, designed by George Jackson Churchward for the Great Western Railway for mixed traffic duties...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 1600 Class is a class of 0-6-0PT type steam locomotive designed for light branch lines, short-distance freight transfers...
Click to read more »The passenger coaches of the Great Western Railway (GWR) were many and varied, ranging from four and six-wheeled vehicles for the original broad gauge...
Click to read more »United Kingdom. There are a number of historic coaches in use including two 'GWR Super Saloons' coaches once used for trans-Atlantic liner passengers, and...
Click to read more »Heart 103 (formerly GWR Radio Bath and GWR FM Bath) was an Independent Local Radio station serving Bath in Somerset, England, broadcasting on 103 MHz FM...
Click to read more »4–6–0 10 GWR 5101 Class 2-6-2T 3 GWR 5205 Class 2-8-0T 8 GWR 5600 Class 0-6-2T 6 GWR 5700 Class 0-6-0PT 2 GWR 6000 Class King class 4–6–0 6 GWR 6959 Class...
Click to read more »GWR 5542 is a preserved Great Western Railway steam locomotive of the GWR 4575 Class. It is currently based at South Devon Railway. Number 5542 was built...
Click to read more »The GWR 645 and 1501 Classes were two closely related classes of 0-6-0ST designed by George Armstrong and built at the Wolverhampton railway works of...
Click to read more »The GWR 2721 Class was a class of 0-6-0ST steam locomotives. They were designed by William Dean and built at the Swindon Works of the Great Western Railway...
Click to read more »Great Western Railway (GWR) express passenger locomotives. The Star class was designed to take the top express trains on the GWR, with 61 in service by...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 3000 Class was a class of 2-8-0 steam locomotive consisting of the ex-Railway Operating Division ROD 2-8-0. These were...
Click to read more »The GWR 455 Class, also called the "Metropolitan" or "Metro" Tanks, was a series of 140 2-4-0T locomotives built for the Great Western Railway, originally...
Click to read more »The GWR Siphon was a series of enclosed milk churn transport wagons built by the Great Western Railway and continued by British Railways. The GWR, being...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 7200 Class is a class of 2-8-2T steam locomotive. They were the only 2-8-2Ts built and used by a British railway, and...
Click to read more »coaches, and goods wagons. Most of these are typical of Great Western Railway (GWR) or London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) branch lines. Some are owned...
Click to read more »The GWR 813 Preservation Fund is an organisation that was founded in 1966 to acquire, restore and preserve Port Talbot Railway No. 26 (GWR 813). It is...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 5205 Class is a class of 2-8-0T steam locomotives. They were designed for short-haul coal trips from coal mines to ports...
Click to read more »Great Western Railway from 1922 to 1941. He designed (amongst others) the GWR's 4-6-0 Castle and King Class express passenger locomotives. Charles was the...
Click to read more »power classification 5MT. By the end of 1923 the Great Western Railway (GWR) was well served with express passenger locomotives of the Saint and Star...
Click to read more »Four of the New Railway Era". The Big Four were: Great Western Railway (GWR) London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) London and North Eastern Railway...
Click to read more »The GWR 1854 Class was a class of 0-6-0T steam locomotives designed by William Dean and constructed at the Swindon Works of the Great Western Railway...
Click to read more »last standard gauge steam locomotive classes to retain outside frames. The GWR absorbed the Cambrian Railways in 1923, but, with the Cambrian main line...
Click to read more »GWR No. 36 was a one-off prototype 4-6-0 steam locomotive constructed at Swindon Works for the Great Western Railway in 1896, the first 4-6-0 ever built...
Click to read more »stages between 1841 and 1844. It was allied with the Great Western Railway (GWR), which built its main line between London and Bristol, and in time formed...
Click to read more »Superintendent of Locomotive Engines for the Great Western Railway (GWR) from 1837 to 1864. In 1854 the GWR absorbed two standard-gauge lines, the Shrewsbury and Chester...
Click to read more »Great Western Railway (GWR) and its 'associated companies' from London and Exeter to Plymouth in Devon, England. Whereas the GWR route from Exeter followed...
Click to read more »between 1860, and 1870 when it was taken over by the Great Western Railway (GWR). The company built a line from the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway...
Click to read more »GCap Media in the United Kingdom. It was formed from the combination of GWR Group's 'The Mix Network' and Capital Radio Group's 'The Capital Radio Network'...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 9400 Class is a class of 0-6-0PT pannier tank steam locomotive, used for shunting and banking duties. The first ten 9400s...
Click to read more »at one time or another, of which 35 passed to the Great Western Railway (GWR) at the start of 1922. The last was withdrawn in 1933. In addition there...
Click to read more »GWR 4073 "Castle" Class No. 4079 Pendennis Castle is a 4-6-0 steam locomotive built in 1924 for the Great Western Railway (GWR) at Swindon Works to a design...
Click to read more »GWR 3700 Class 3440 City of Truro is a 4-4-0 steam locomotive built in 1903 for the Great Western Railway (GWR) at Swindon Works to a design by George...
Click to read more »the survivors passed into Great Western Railway (GWR) stock. The GWR perpetuated the type in the GWR 5600 Class. The other major railway company in Wales...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2251 Class or Collett Goods Class was a class of 0-6-0 type steam tender locomotives designed for medium-powered freight...
Click to read more »coaches and goods wagons. Most of these are typical of Great Western Railway (GWR) branch lines in Somerset, or of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (SDJR)...
Click to read more »were carried on general-purpose flat trucks and wagons, but from 1931 the GWR built or converted a number of special purpose flat-bedded wagons, provided...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4400 Class was a class of 2-6-2T side tank steam locomotive. They were introduced in 1904 for work on small branch lines...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2301 Class or Dean Goods Class is a class of British 0-6-0 steam locomotives. Swindon Works built 260 of these goods locomotives...
Click to read more »service between December 1865 and the last was withdrawn at the end of the GWR broad gauge in May 1892. They were all named after directors and senior officers...
Click to read more »Gwinner–Roger Melroe Field (ICAO: KGWR, FAA LID: GWR) is a public use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) southeast of the central business district...
Click to read more »amalgamated with the GWR on 1 February 1876. The CR, however, remained nominally independent of the GWR until 1 July 1889 although the GWR already held a large...
Click to read more »locomotives (the other being Thunderer) built for the Great Western Railway (GWR) by R. & W. Hawthorn & Co. whose design was very different from other locomotives...
Click to read more »5051 Drysllwyn Castle is a Great Western Railway (GWR) Castle Class locomotive built at Swindon Works in May 1936 and named after Dryslwyn Castle. It...
Click to read more »London on 30 July 1833. This became the GWR, and he intended it to be the best railway in the country. The GWR had originally planned to terminate London...
Click to read more »The GWR 4073 Class 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe is a steam locomotive of the GWR 'Castle' Class, built in March 1936. It was originally named Barbury Castle...
Click to read more »The GWR 1901 Class was a class of 120 small 0-6-0ST steam locomotives. Numbered 1901–2020, they were designed by George Armstrong (responsible to William...
Click to read more »The GWR Rheidol Tanks are a fleet of 2-6-2T steam locomotives of the Great Western Railway design built between 1923 and 1924. They were designed by the...
Click to read more »The GWR 4100 Class was a class of steam locomotives in the Great Western Railway (GWR) of the United Kingdom. The Badminton class express passenger 4-4-0...
Click to read more »manager in Great Britain. He was General Manager of the Great Western Railway (GWR) from 1929 to 1947, and also deputy chairman of the Railway Executive Committee...
Click to read more »Great Western Railway (GWR) 6800 Class or Grange Class is a mixed-traffic class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive, built to replace the GWR 4300 Class 2-6-0. There...
Click to read more »The GWR petrol-electric railcar was a 4-wheel motorised coach ordered by the GWR in 1911 from British Thomson-Houston, who designed it and supplied the...
Click to read more »engineer who served as the Chief Engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR). A protégé of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, he worked with both Brunel and Brunel's...
Click to read more »congestion on some of the country's most crowded trains. In January 2017 GWR began running a half-hourly Paddington to Hayes & Harlington service using...
Click to read more »Coast Express was a named passenger train of the Great Western Railway (GWR), and later British Rail, running from London Paddington via Shrewsbury to...
Click to read more »it was the largest depot on the entire GWR system, and set the pattern for similar depots throughout the GWR including Tyseley. It had four 65 feet (19...
Click to read more »London and North Western Railway, which sought access to South Wales. The GWR and the LNWR jointly leased the S&HR line in 1862, later jointly acquiring...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 5800 Class was a class of twenty 0-4-2T steam tank locomotives. They were built by the GWRs Swindon Works in 1933 and were...
Click to read more »The GWR autocoach (or auto-trailer) is a type of coach that was used by the Great Western Railway for push-pull trains powered by a steam locomotive....
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 7800 Class or Manor Class is a class of 4-6-0 type steam locomotives. They were designed as a lighter version of the Grange...
Click to read more »GWR No. 1334, and sister locomotives 1335 and 1336, were 2-4-0 steam locomotives which the Great Western Railway inherited from the Midland and South...
Click to read more »The GWR was the longest-lived of the pre-nationalisation railway companies in Britain, surviving the 'Grouping' of the railways in 1923 almost unchanged...
Click to read more »adopted by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, the Great Western Railway (GWR) and the London and North Eastern Railway. The Southern Railway (SR) retained...
Click to read more »England, United Kingdom. It was served by both the Great Western Railway (GWR) and London and South Western Railway (LSWR). There were actually two stations...
Click to read more »the GWR had running powers, but on which they were expressly forbidden to use 4-6-0 locomotives. The 4-4-0 Counties were in effect a shortened GWR 2900...
Click to read more »GWR 6800 Class No. 6880 Betton Grange is a steam locomotive built between 1998 and 2024 as a "new-build" project, originally based on the Llangollen Railway...
Click to read more »yard. 1 × GWR 2884 Class 3817 (scrapped 1973) 1 × GWR 3150 Class 3170 8 × GWR 4300 Class 5312, 5345, 5355, 5360, 5392, 5397, 6331, 6334 2 × GWR 4500 Class...
Click to read more »Heart Wiltshire (formerly GWR FM Wiltshire) was an Independent Local Radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. It...
Click to read more »Great Western details such as the cab, bunker and many minor fittings. G.W.R. 0-6-0T were generally being converted to have Belpaire fireboxes and pannier...
Click to read more »GWR 2900 Saint Class 2999 Lady of Legend is a British "new-build" 4-6-0 steam locomotive completed in 2019. It is a 4-6-0 standard gauge locomotive built...
Click to read more »railway station was a junction at Lydford between the Great Western Railway (GWR) and London and South Western Railway (LSWR) situated in a remote part of...
Click to read more »GWR 1951 Aberbargoed B&MJR 1962 Aberbeeg GWR 1962 Aberbran N&BR 1962 Abercairny CR 1951 Abercamlais N&BR 1962 Abercanaid GWR/RR Jt 1951 Abercarn GWR 1962...
Click to read more »Wolverhampton in 1854. The S&BR merged with the GWR in 1854. With the S&BR and other absorbed railways, the GWR obtained a through route between London and...
Click to read more »(GWR) announced that it had arranged to procure 173 new rail vehicles from Hitachi Rail, along with options for an additional 150. At the time, GWR was...
Click to read more »William Dean as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR), G. J. Churchward planned the introduction of a series of locomotives designed...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 6959 or Modified Hall Class is a class of 4-6-0 type steam locomotive. They were a development by Frederick Hawksworth...
Click to read more »and South Western Railway (LSWR) from 1847 and the Great Western Railway (GWR) from 1856, as well as two further stations at Wilton, 2.5 miles (4 km) to...
Click to read more »Railway Company was established to connect the Great Western Railway's (GWR's) Paddington station to Pearson's route at King's Cross. A bill was published...
Click to read more »The GWR 0-4-0ST steam locomotives were acquired by the Great Western Railway at the 1923 grouping. They came from small railways (mostly in South Wales)...
Click to read more »the successful Modified Hall class. The Chief Mechanical Engineer of the GWR Frederick W. Hawksworth had hoped to design a new 4-6-2 (Pacific) express...
Click to read more »2010 as a result of a merger between Heart Bristol (formerly GWR FM), Heart Bath (formerly GWR FM Bath) and Heart Somerset (formerly Orchard FM). The regional...
Click to read more »Railway (GWR) 6000 Class King George V is a preserved British steam locomotive. After developing the "new" GWR Star Class in the form of the GWR Castle...
Click to read more »The GWR 2021 Class was a class of 140 0-6-0ST steam locomotives. They were built at the Wolverhampton railway works of the Great Western Railway between...
Click to read more »of 52 0-6-0ST locomotives designed by George Armstrong and built at the GWR's Wolverhampton Works. They were built in three lots between 1892 and 1897:...
Click to read more »GWR 4073 Castle class 4073 Caerphilly Castle is a steam locomotive completed in August 1923. It is a 4-6-0 standard gauge locomotive built to a design...
Click to read more »The GWR 101 Class consisted of a single experimental 0-4-0T side-tank steam locomotive. It was built at GWR Swindon Works under the direction of George...
Click to read more »Western Main Line between London and Bristol by the Great Western Railway (GWR). Its Chief Engineer was Isambard Kingdom Brunel. From 1836, Brunel had been...
Click to read more »station, which remains in service. It was built by the Great Western Railway (GWR), on their route from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside, via Birmingham...
Click to read more »The GWR 0-6-0PT (pannier tank), is a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway with the water tanks carried on both sides of...
Click to read more »but the West Midland company amalgamated with the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1863. Several branches and extensions were built in the West Midlands...
Click to read more »4-4-0PT was built at Swindon (Lot no. 114, works no. 1702), and was the first GWR locomotive with pannier tanks. It had 4 ft 7+1⁄2 in (1,410 mm) driving wheels...
Click to read more »1892, originally over the Great Western Railway (GWR) and then the Bristol and Exeter Railway. As the GWR expanded, the destination of the train changed...
Click to read more »estuary of the River Severn. It was constructed by the Great Western Railway (GWR) between 1873 and 1886 for the purpose of dramatically shortening the journey...
Click to read more »The West Midland Railway was an early British railway company. It was formed on 1 July 1860 by the West Midland Railway Act 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. lxxxi)...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) Bogie Class 4-4-0ST were broad gauge steam locomotives for passenger train work. The first two locomotives of this class...
Click to read more »raise further money and sold its line to the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1850. The GWR took over the construction and undertook to build an adjacent connecting...
Click to read more »Western Railway (GWR) via the Heart of Wessex Line between Bristol Temple Meads and Weymouth. The special service was named when GWR started running a...
Click to read more »The GWR Class 850 was an extensive class of small 0-6-0ST locomotives designed by George Armstrong and built at the Wolverhampton railway works of the...
Click to read more »List of all GWR Manor Class locomotives, built between 1938 and 1950. Wilcock, David (November 1997). "Nameplates the giddy spiral goes onwards and upwards"...
Click to read more »Railway was a railway built and operated jointly by the Great Western Railway (GWR) and Great Central Railway (GCR) between Northolt (in north west London)...
Click to read more »built at Swindon Works for the Great Western Railway in 1892–93, were the GWR's last completely new 2-4-0 design. Their number series was 3232–3251. They...
Click to read more »GWR No. 12 is a Sentinel geared steam locomotive which was built for the Great Western Railway and delivered in 1926. Its Sentinel works number is 6515...
Click to read more »heritage Swindon and Cricklade Railway. By 1845 the Great Western Railway (GWR) had established itself as the dominant railway company controlling west...
Click to read more »retaining this name after being absorbed by the GWR. Nearly all of these engines spent their lives on the GWR's Southern Division. The "missing" number 1833...
Click to read more »with the GWR, the passenger service ran from Wellington to Lightmoor Junction, reversing there, and then on to Shifnal via Madeley over the GWR (former...
Click to read more »October 2010. "GWR 7545 Toplight Brake Corridor Tri-Composite built 1907". cs.rhrp.org.uk. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021. "GWR 3898 Toplight...
Click to read more »fitted with the vacuum brake. They both passed to the Great Western Railway (GWR) in July 1922, which assigned them to Diagram A114 and renumbered them 2194...
Click to read more »present station was rebuilt to its current form in 1927 to designs by Chief GWR Architect P. E. Culverhouse. The large clock was a gift from the people of...
Click to read more »the GWR services. On 9 May 1904, City of Truro was the first locomotive recorded in excess of 100 mph (160 km/h) while working one of the GWR's trains...
Click to read more »GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1857 - 1872) Briarcus GWR Premier class 0-6-0 (1847 - 1870) Brigand GWR Bogie class 4-4-0ST (1849 - 1873) Bright Star GWR Star...
Click to read more »Great Western Railway (Great Britain) (GWR). Hawksworth spent his entire career at the Swindon Works of the GWR. He joined the company as an apprentice...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (reporting mark GWRS) is a Canadian short line railway company operating on former Canadian Pacific Railway trackage in Southwest...
Click to read more »100 mph while working one of the GWR's trains, with the whole journey to London taking just 3 hours 54 minutes. The GWR route was shortened by 20¼ miles...
Click to read more »Lord of the Isles (the last to be withdrawn) was initially preserved by the GWR at Swindon Works, but was scrapped in January 1906 owing to the pressure...
Click to read more »1897 — 4 September 1984) was a draughtswoman for the Great Western Railway (GWR) who became the first woman member of the United Kingdom's Institution of...
Click to read more »The GWR 633 Class were 0-6-0Ts designed by George Armstrong and built at the Wolverhampton railway works of the Great Western Railway between November...
Click to read more »GWR locomotives. GWR 1000 Class No. 1014 County of Glamorgan, GWR 3800 Class No. 3840 County of Montgomery, a GWR 2221 Class tank engine, and a GWR 4700...
Click to read more »Telegraph Message Code book unless stated otherwise. The Great Western Railway (GWR) pioneered telegraph communication over the 13 miles (21 km) from Paddington...
Click to read more »company's line as far as Lydford, then over the Great Western Railway's (GWR) Launceston branch,[page needed] via Tavistock South and the South Devon...
Click to read more »point. The founders and commercial backers of the Great Western Railway (GWR) supported Isambard Kingdom Brunel's scheme to develop an integrated railway...
Click to read more »was built by an independent railway friendly to the Great Western Railway (GWR) from Savernake to Marlborough in 1864. A north–south railway, later to be...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 3600 Class was a class of 2-4-2T side tank steam locomotive, designed by William Dean and built at Swindon in three lots...
Click to read more »Great Western Railway (GWR) also launched a pay-as-you-go system called GWR PAYG in August 2022, which requires the use of the GWR Touch smartcard. Transport...
Click to read more »This is a list of all GWR Modified Hall class locomotives built at Swindon Works by the Great Western Railway and British Railways. Notes Locomotives...
Click to read more »Gloucestershire, England. The museum was founded in 1988. Based in the former GWR Goods Shed along the Coleford Railway. There was also another station situated...
Click to read more »for 4003 Lode Star & The GWR Railcar. GWR 4073 Class 4073 Caerphilly Castle – Built in 1923. Part of the National Collection GWR 4200 Class 4248 – Built...
Click to read more »were built at Swindon Works, but 14 (GWR Nos. 15, 16, and 61–72) were built by Kerr, Stuart and Company, and 8 (GWR Nos. 73–80) were built by the Gloucester...
Click to read more »worked on alternate days by the GWR and LNWR: Tuesdays and Fridays were LNWR days and Mondays and Thursdays GWR days; the GWR engine starts from Brymbo and...
Click to read more »approached the GWR to explore the GWR's willingness to work the line, and to run passenger trains on their Frome—Radstock line, the GWR's reaction was cool...
Click to read more »GWR Records was an independent record label active in the UK from 1986 through to 1991. By 1984, Gerry Bron's Bronze Records was in financial difficulty...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) experimented with oil burning steam locomotives at two points in its history. A single experimental tank engine was constructed...
Click to read more »by Transport for Wales. The depot is used by Transport for Wales fleet, GWR Class 158s and some Cross Country Class 170s. In steam days the depot was...
Click to read more »Railway, a heritage railway in Cornwall, England. The Great Western Railway (GWR) opened a branch line from Bodmin Road to Bodmin General in 1887 and this...
Click to read more »guide for RMI Expeditions. For nearly 37 years, Guinness World Records (GWR) recognized Reinhold Messner as the first person to climb all 14 of the world's...
Click to read more »four-cylinder GWR Star Class, which was developed and enlarged by Charles Collett as the GWR 4073 Castle class in 1923 and later also as the GWR 6000 King...
Click to read more »and Canal Company. The Great Western Railway (GWR) put up half the capital, making it in effect a GWR subsidiary. It opened in 1874, and most long-distance...
Click to read more »the GWR Iron Duke Class of 4-2-2 locomotives, which were able to achieve 70 miles per hour (110 km/h). Much renewed, they lasted to the end of the GWR broad...
Click to read more »GWR 4073 Class 5080 Defiant is a GWR 4073 Class steam locomotive built for the Great Western Railway at Swindon Works in May 1939. It was originally named...
Click to read more »commissioned by the Great Western Railway (GWR), and later taken over by British Railways. The locomotive was built for the GWR by Hawthorn Leslie of Newcastle upon...
Click to read more »August 12, 2020. Retrieved March 25, 2021. @GWR (October 21, 2019). "(CG) La Gaga has made a few appearances in GWR books over the past few years, including...
Click to read more »(1,435 mm), standard gauge, railway backed by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in north-west Wales. It connected Bala with Blaenau Ffestiniog. The railway...
Click to read more »the West Midlands, and in due course the north-west. It overtook another GWR subsidiary, the unbuilt Oxford and Rugby Railway, and the Birmingham Extension...
Click to read more »Koskador Ruvyer an Nos) is a sleeper train operated by Great Western Railway (GWR). It is one of only two sleeper services on the railway in the United Kingdom...
Click to read more »stock GWR 2251 Class GWR 2800 Class GWR Star class GWR Castle class GWR 4200 Class GWR 4300 Class GWR Hall class GWR 5100 Class GWR 5400 Class GWR 5600...
Click to read more »locomotives to the GWR soon afterwards. Thirty-nine locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922. Forty-seven locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 July...
Click to read more »Powers were granted by act of Parliament for the Great Western Railway (GWR) to operate ships in 1871. The following year the company took over the ships...
Click to read more »developed a system known as "automatic train control". In modern terminology, GWR ATC is classified as an automatic warning system (AWS). This was an intermittent...
Click to read more »collected by the first train in the morning. On the GWR, it was not uncommon to see a pannier tank engine and GWR autocoach on a local passenger service pulling...
Click to read more »approximately two years when both local ILR stations were acquired by the GWR group in the 1990s. Originally, Hereward Radio (which launched on 10 July...
Click to read more »Dukes' smaller boilers. The Dukes were subject to the 1912 renumbering of GWR 4-4-0 locomotives. Those Dukes rebuilt as Bulldogs were renumbered as members...
Click to read more »4.5 mi (7.2 km) away. The line was now simply a GWR branch line; passenger trains ran from the GWR Plymouth terminus at Millbay. In 1898 the working...
Click to read more »series. Built in April 1937 at Swindon Works for the Great Western Railway (GWR), No. 5972 was first allocated to Carmarthen, South Wales where it remained...
Click to read more »built at the former GWR Swindon Works on 19 May 1950. The Castle Class locomotives were built as express passenger locomotives on the GWR. The Castle Class...
Click to read more »72 m) wheelbase, dimensions that would remain traditional for the larger GWR pannier tanks right through to Charles Collett's 5700 Class, and with little...
Click to read more »North Road (Joint) Plymouth Millbay (GWR) Devonport Albert Road (GWR) Devonport Kings Road (LSWR) Dockyard (GWR) Albert Road Halt (LSWR) Ford (LSWR) Camels...
Click to read more »November 2023. "I bet you didn't know the name of the new Okehampton Station". GWR (Press release). 13 May 2024. Archived from the original on 13 May 2024....
Click to read more »and Company 30 (1851 – 1876) 31 (1851 – 1877) GWR No. 2054 E. B. Wilson and Company 32 (1851 – 1878) GWR No. 2055 33 (1851 – 1876) 34 (1851 – 1875) Rothwell...
Click to read more »barrel) when new, but shorter boilers were fitted on overhaul. As usual with GWR saddle tanks, pannier tanks were later fitted to most of them, between 1910...
Click to read more »rivalry between the LSWR and its allies, and the Great Western Railway (GWR) and its associated companies. Because the track gauges of the two groups...
Click to read more »Cwmbran railway station was a station in the old village of Cwmbran in Torfaen (now known as Old Cwmbran) in South Wales, UK. The station was opened on...
Click to read more »the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway, opened in 1859, and the access to the GWR and LNWR was by no means as clear cut as suggested. The running powers beyond...
Click to read more »station opened by the Great Western Railway (GWR) on the former Bullo Pill Railway, later known as the GWR Forest of Dean Branch. The Halt was located...
Click to read more »locomotives (the other being Hurricane) built for the Great Western Railway (GWR), England, by R. & W. Hawthorn & Co. whose design was very different from...
Click to read more »by joining existing railways at Rugby. It was authorised in 1845, but the GWR soon decided to make its own line to Birmingham, and in 1846 it acquired...
Click to read more »the precursor to today's Metropolitan line) and the Great Western Railway (GWR). Its site was adjacent to another station named Hammersmith, which today...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2600 or Aberdare class was a class of 2-6-0 steam locomotive built between 1900 and 1907. They were a freight and light...
Click to read more »51°42′23″N 2°54′20″W / 51.7063°N 2.9055°W / 51.7063; -2.9055 Usk railway station is a disused railway station in the town of Usk, Monmouthshire, South...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) Ariadne Class and Caliph Class were broad gauge 0-6-0 steam locomotives designed for goods train work by Daniel Gooch...
Click to read more »Great Western Railway (GWR) 6000 Class 6023 King Edward II is a preserved steam locomotive. The locomotive was built at the Great Western Railway's Swindon...
Click to read more »summit and over Masbury. The Highbridge branch trains were latterly worked by GWR 2251 Class 0-6-0s, and LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0.s The S&D main line ran south...
Click to read more »connecting Truro and Plymouth, and by association with the Great Western Railway (GWR) and its allies, it formed a broad gauge route from Truro to London and Gloucester;...
Click to read more »the GWR's Locomotive Superintendent, Northern Division, at Wolverhampton Works. For ten years the task of providing new locomotives for the GWR's newly...
Click to read more »NBR 1954 Dairy House Blyth and Tyne Railway 1862 Daisy Bank and Bradley GWR 1962 Daisyfield L&YR 1958 Dalbeattie G&SWR 1965 Dalchonzie Halt Caledonian...
Click to read more »The GWR 2201 Class was a class of 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge 2-4-0 steam locomotives built at Swindon Works under the aegis of William Dean...
Click to read more »1968 Keinton Mandeville GWR 1962 Keith Town Great North of Scotland Railway 1968 Kelmarsh L&NWR 1960 Kelmscott and Langford GWR 1962 Kelso North British...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) Star Class of 2-2-2 broad gauge steam locomotives were used for passenger train work. Designed by Robert Stephenson, the...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2221 Class or County Tank was a class of 4-4-2T steam locomotive, effectively a tank engine version of the 3800 "County"...
Click to read more »disadvantage that it only operated when the locomotive was in motion. The GWR favoured this due to the use of braking systems working on a vacuum level...
Click to read more »The Miracle Maker (Welsh: Gŵr y Gwyrthiau, Russian: Чудотворец, sometimes subtitled The Story of Jesus) is a 1999 stop-motion animated Biblical drama...
Click to read more »The GWR 388 class was a large class of 310 0-6-0 goods locomotives built by the Great Western Railway. They are sometimes referred to as the Armstrong...
Click to read more »locomotive boiler Career Operators GWR Class 3571 Power class GWR: Unclassified Numbers 3571–3580 Axle load class GWR: Unclassified or yellow Withdrawn...
Click to read more »GWR installed the equipment on all its main lines. For many years, Western Region (successors to the GWR) locomotives were dual fitted with both GWR ATC...
Click to read more »a GWR No.2 boiler as fitted to the GWR Large Prairie 2-6-2T and 5600 Class 0-6-2T tank engines. The design and construction took place at the ex-GWR Swindon...
Click to read more »now saw that they were to run between the broad gauge GWR at Bristol, and the broad gauge GWR (ex-C&GWUR) at Standish and Gloucester. Isambard Kingdom...
Click to read more »The following are list of oldest people in the world in ordinal ranks. To avoid including false or unconfirmed claims of old age, names here are restricted...
Click to read more »The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was formed out of a number of constituent railway companies at the grouping in 1923. The main companies, showing...
Click to read more »necessities of life, and of their products. When the Great Western Railway (GWR) opened throughout between London and Bristol in 1841, the inhabitants of...
Click to read more »CrossCountry / GWR Portsmouth Harbour 146 – 164 minutes N/A GWR Reading 68 – 123 minutes 59 minutes GWR Salisbury 68 – 86 minutes GWR Severn Beach 33...
Click to read more »GWR 2800 Class No. 2807 is one of the surviving members of the Great Western Railway's 2800 Class of 2-8-0 steam locomotives, which are also known as...
Click to read more »BBC Radio Manchester is the BBC's local radio station serving Greater Manchester. It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios...
Click to read more »North Road (Joint) Plymouth Millbay (GWR) Devonport Albert Road (GWR) Devonport Kings Road (LSWR) Dockyard (GWR) Albert Road Halt (LSWR) Ford (LSWR) Camels...
Click to read more »Shining. Köln: TASCHEN. ISBN 978-3-7544-0003-6. Guinness World Records [@GWR] (July 8, 2020). "Most retakes for a scene with dialogue" (Tweet). Retrieved...
Click to read more »Southern Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu West Nyanza North Nyanza Gwere Language codes ISO 639-3 gwr Glottolog gwer1238 Guthrie code JE.17...
Click to read more »connected to the Great Western Railway (GWR) at Princes Risborough, did not make any money and was taken over in 1883 by GWR resulting in its investors sustaining...
Click to read more »by Edward Marston, published 2009. Wikimedia Commons has media related to GWR Firefly Class. Earnshaw, Alan (1990). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 6. Penryn:...
Click to read more »when many pits and rival railways used the narrow (standard) gauge, but the GWR extended the network into Cwm Clydach and the line became heavily used. The...
Click to read more »February 2022. "GWR and Vivarail to trial battery train". International Railway Journal. 16 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022. "GWR starts west London...
Click to read more »GWR amalgamated with the Cambrian Railways in 1921, it was also a major point of accessing GWR services into Mid and West Wales: Cambrian Line (GWR)...
Click to read more »water in the tank. Pannier tank locomotives are often seen as an icon of the GWR.[citation needed] In Logging railroads in the Western USA used 2-6-6-2 Saddle...
Click to read more »Backney Halt GWR 1962 Backworth (1st) North Eastern Railway 1864 Backworth NER 1977 Bacton GWR 1941 Bacup L&YR 1966 Badgworth MR 1846 Badminton GWR 1968 Baggrow...
Click to read more »South Western Railway. The station was opened by the Great Western Railway (GWR), as part of the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth route on 1 September 1856....
Click to read more »to Plymouth 172½ Exeter St Davids Red Cow Crossing Cowley Bridge Junction GWR to London via Bristol River Exe 176¾ Newton St Cyres 179¼ Crediton Crediton...
Click to read more »Great Western Railway was a British railway company operating from 1833 to 1947. Great Western Railway or Great Western Railroad may also refer to the...
Click to read more »Wales Railway was to be an independent company, it was supported by the GWR and had many mutual directors and investors, and its engineer was Isambard...
Click to read more »July 2013. "Hitachi converts GWR '801s' to bi-mode operation". Rail. 8 June 2016. Preston-Ellis, Rom (18 July 2018). "GWR gives update on when we will...
Click to read more »(automobile), a 1920s British cyclecar Amazon, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive operating 1892–1908 Amazon, a GWR Iron Duke Class locomotive operating 1851–1877...
Click to read more »GWR 1915 Panteg Pontypool, Caerleon and Newport Railway 1880 Panteg and Griffithstown GWR 1962 Pantydwr Cambrian Railways 1962 Pantyffordd Halt GWR 1962...
Click to read more »Waenavon London and North Western Railway 1941 Wainfelin Halt GWR 1941 Wainhill Crossing Halt GWR 1957 Wakerley and Barrowden London and North Western Railway...
Click to read more »and London-Wolverhampton routes. Accordingly, No. 55 became the principal GWR royal locomotive, carrying the royal coat of arms for royal journeys, though...
Click to read more »Below is a list of all 171 GWR Castle Class engines, built between August 1923 and August 1950. Five of these were converted to burn oil for a short period...
Click to read more »4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) 3001 class were fitted with larger boilers than earlier GWR 2-2-2 classes, the diameter of the boiler was constrained by its position...
Click to read more »Railway R class excepting a round-topped boiler. When rebuilt by the GWR they acquired GWR Belpaire boilers. The B & M also borrowed from the Rhymney Railway...
Click to read more »These heritage railways operate on old GWR branch lines. Many other heritage railways and museums also have GWR locomotives or rolling stock in use or...
Click to read more »failed, and the merger took place in 1847. The line was constructed by the GWR and opened in 1854; the Birmingham station was Snow Hill and the Wolverhampton...
Click to read more »1928–1939 (198 built). Ten more were opened by British Rail on ex-GWR lines. The GWR also built 34 "platforms". Many such stops remain on the national...
Click to read more »Railways (BR). Locomotives from the former "Big Four" constituent companies (GWR, LMS, LNER, SR) were transferred to and worked on other regions. Officially...
Click to read more »seventh studio album by British heavy metal band, Girlschool, released by GWR Records in 1988. It is the first album to feature Tracey Lamb on bass, replacing...
Click to read more »Hockley was an intermediate station on the Great Western Railway's London Paddington to Birkenhead via Birmingham Snow Hill line in England, serving the...
Click to read more »started and ended on lines operated by the Great Western Railway (Ontario) (GWR), and the route and construction was supervised by that company. Construction...
Click to read more »1889) GWR No. 2008 10 (1849 – 1888) GWR No. 2009 11 (1849 – 1874) 12 (1849 – 1862) 13 (1849 – 1878) GWR No. 2010 14 (1849 – 1870) 15 (1849 – 1888) GWR No...
Click to read more »GWR 4073 Class No. 7029 Clun Castle is a 4-6-0 steam locomotive built at Swindon Works in May 1950 to a design by Charles Collett for operation on the...
Click to read more »Exe Valley Railway was a branch line built by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in Devon, England, to link its Bristol to Exeter line with its Devon and...
Click to read more »Britain - Part One". The Railway Magazine. November 2011. "GWR - B3 Train Times" (PDF). GWR. 2024. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2024...
Click to read more »British Rail Class 390 Pendolino stock for the West Coast Main Line. The GWR on reaching Wolverhampton Low Level railway station in 1854, had built their...
Click to read more »Nevertheless as late as the 1920s the class was found in almost all parts of the GWR system. Most of the class ran between a million and a million and a half...
Click to read more »In Britain Pagoda shelters are associated with the Great Western Railway (GWR) who introduced them in 1907 and erected a patchwork of them across their...
Click to read more »International Unicycle Federation (IUF) and the Guinness World Records (GWR). The GWR has only recognised male records: hour record, 100-mile record and 24-hour...
Click to read more »FKT attempts follow the Guinness World Record (GWR) Rules. One can still have the FKT but not the GWR. For example, Lee Fancourt set an FKT which was...
Click to read more »August 2008. GWR 2900 Saint 4-6-0 2999 Lady of Legend, built from 2009 to 2019. Completed 5 April 2019. The locomotive is a conversion from GWR 4900 4-6-0...
Click to read more »combined under the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1876. The Bristol and Exeter had been worked by the GWR until 1849 but then purchased its own locomotives...
Click to read more »the GWR and the LNWR - the only line in North Wales to be so operated. The completion of this link through the Cegidog valley not only gave the GWR a route...
Click to read more »carried the wide variety of goods traffic on the Great Western Railway (GWR) in the United Kingdom. This was the railway company that operated for the...
Click to read more »The GWR 481 Class was a class of 20 2-4-0 mixed-traffic steam locomotives designed for the Great Western Railway by Joseph Armstrong and built at Swindon...
Click to read more »and March 1866, and were withdrawn between June 1887 and the end of the GWR broad gauge in May 1892. The entire class was sold to the Bristol and Exeter...
Click to read more »opened in 1881; an interchange with the GWR opened in 1883. In 1931, Duffws closed as a passenger station and the GWR exchange station became the terminus...
Click to read more »Contains driving vehicle 50751 from 175008 "Class 175s enter traffic with GWR". Modern Railways. 16 December 2025. Retrieved 16 December 2025. "TFW ends...
Click to read more »London and Westbury and Frome also calls. Thatcham station is served by GWR local services between Reading and Newbury, and between London Paddington...
Click to read more »17 December 1840 as the temporary terminus of the Great Western Railway (GWR) when it was extended from Faringdon Road. It was located about 4 miles (6...
Click to read more »Australian model of the late 1980s Corsair motorcycle, built by Cotton Corsair, a GWR Bogie Class broad gauge locomotive that was built for and run on the Great...
Click to read more »frames and a new type of bogie. Previously all outside framed bogies on GWR locomotives had been of the Dean centreless type. Churchward adapted a French...
Click to read more »January 29, 1890(1890-01-29) (aged 26) Truckee, California, US Known for "Lightest Recorded Adult" Height 50.8 cm (20.0 in) (claimed) 68 cm (26.8 in) (GWR)...
Click to read more »Advent. Archived from the original on 11 July 2022. Retrieved 4 July 2022. "GWR 4270 4200 CLASS: 2-8-0T". The One:One Collection. Retrieved 20 August 2025...
Click to read more »In 2011, a purpose-built railway works was built on the site of the old GWR coaling stage. This now allows the railway to carry out heavy maintenance...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) was incorporated by an act of Parliament in 1835 and nationalised on 1 January 1948. During this time it amalgamated with...
Click to read more »January 1876 when it was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway (GWR). In 1931 the GWR started a project to quadruple the track between Cogload Junction...
Click to read more »Railway 1842 Cadoxton Terrace Halt GWR 1962 Cae Harris (Dowlais) Rhymney Railway 1964 Caerau GWR 1970 Caerleon GWR 1962 Caernarvon L&NWR 1970 Caernarvon...
Click to read more »GWR Vulcan, Æolus and Bacchus Vulcan after rebuilding Type and origin Power type Steam Designer Charles Tayleur Builder Vulcan Foundry Serial number 51–53...
Click to read more »smaller railway companies were forcibly merged into the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1923, these modern 0-6-2's were in generally good order (some were a...
Click to read more »independent life and was sold to the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1905. Steam railmotors and a GWR diesel railcar were used on the line, as well as steam...
Click to read more »("Young Joe") also became outstanding engineers in the employment of the GWR. After a spell in Canada, in 1824 Joseph's family took up residence in Newburn-on-Tyne...
Click to read more »locomotive built by the Great Western Railway in 1913. It was one of the GWR standard classes with two outside cylinders. It was designed as light suburban...
Click to read more »Bridgwater (GWR) Bristol and Exeter Railway (GWR) to Taunton 59.75 Glastonbury and Street 1:39 64.57 Polsham 1:47 Cheddar Valley line (GWR) to Yatton 68...
Click to read more »Hereford Railway which was jointly owned with GWR. Authorised in 1853, planning difficulties accessing the GWR station at Shrewsbury delayed opening until...
Click to read more »replace the Class 170 units, while others were retained by GWR to operate local services. GWR will retire these units in favour of Class 802s by December...
Click to read more »[page needed][page needed] The Great Western Railway (GWR) absorbed the B&ER on 1 January 1876. The GWR gradually changed the gauge of branch lines in the...
Click to read more »display working scale models of typical scenes of the Great Western Railway (GWR) of the 1920s. The trains are also representative in detail of those travelling...
Click to read more »Great Western Railway main line at Hatton, in England. It was worked by the GWR. In 1861 it was connected through Stratford to a branch line from Honeybourne...
Click to read more »the LMS Ivatt Class 4, and having a boiler derived from a GWR No.2 boiler as fitted to the GWR Large Prairie 2-6-2T and 5600 Class 0-6-2T tank engines....
Click to read more »media related to Shunters trucks. Elliott, Russ. "GWR Shunters Trucks". Great Western Railway Modelling. GWR.org.uk. Retrieved May 1, 2025. Stroud, Kevin....
Click to read more »Cross Turnchapel Billacombe Oreston Plymstock Laira Bridge over River Plym Lucas Terrace Halt to Plymouth Millbay (GWR) and Plymouth Friary (LSWR)...
Click to read more »Hereford Railway, 1862 (jointly with GWR and West Midland Railway) Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway, 1864 (jointly with GWR from 1865) Shropshire Union Railways...
Click to read more »summit of Annapurna in 1985. For nearly 37 years, Guinness World Records (GWR) recognized Messner as the first person to climb all 14 of the world's mountains...
Click to read more »tanks This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title GWR 3400 Class. If an internal link incorrectly led you here, you may wish to...
Click to read more »Grüning & Co. 591? of 1859); GWR no. 2108; withdrawn 1885 Named after the bird of prey, hawk. Giraffe (SG 365 of 1859); GWR no. 2112; withdrawn 1877 Giraffe...
Click to read more »a Hall class 4-6-0 steam locomotive built by the Great Western Railway (GWR), currently preserved at the Epping Ongar Railway. Built at Swindon Works...
Click to read more »had operated as a tourist railway operation since the mid-1930s, when the GWR withdrew freight services and winter passenger services, rendering the railway...
Click to read more »is notable for its well-preserved Brunel-designed Great Western Railway (GWR) station buildings, which are still in use. The station is served by local...
Click to read more »(1849–1883) GWR No. 2066 23 (1849–1885) GWR No. 2067 24 (1849–1884) GWR No. 2068 25 (1849–1884) GWR No. 2069 26 (1849–1887) GWR No. 2070 27 (1849–1883) GWR No...
Click to read more »the Met and the Great Western Railway (GWR), the Hammersmith and City Railway (H&CR) was built from the GWR's main line a mile west of Paddington station...
Click to read more »construction, and in 1849 the directors decided to sell their line to the GWR. The GWR's branch to Salisbury from Westbury was completed through the Wylye valley...
Click to read more »opened on 4 June 1853 from Wolvercot Junction, on the Great Western Railway (GWR) a little north of Oxford to Evesham, and Witney had at least a nearby station...
Click to read more »Kemble to a junction near Gloucester in 1845, by the Great Western Railway (GWR) which had taken over the C&GWUR. The branch supported a busy passenger and...
Click to read more »administration. Assets of Vivarail have been purchased by train operating company GWR. GWR bought intellectual property, rolling stock and equipment relating to the...
Click to read more »the Pembroke and Tenby Railway, who named it Stella. It returned to the GWR in 1896 and retained the nameplates until 1902. Nos. 3202-3205 were constructed...
Click to read more »repair and maintenance of locomotives on the Great Western Railway (GWR). The GWR built a small railway village to house some of its workers. The Museum...
Click to read more »originally pulled sugar beet trains for the Great Western Railway of Colorado (GWR), and it was the largest of the company's roster. On April 5, 1967, No. 90...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) steam locomotive No. 4936 Kinlet Hall is a preserved Hall class 4-6-0 steam locomotive. Kinlet Hall was built in June...
Click to read more »The GWR 378 Class (also known as the Sir Daniel Class) was a class of 30 standard-gauge 2-2-2 steam locomotives on the Great Western Railway in Britain...
Click to read more »a railway junction in Shropshire where the GWR's line from Buildwas via Much Wenlock joined the LNWR/GWR joint line between Shrewsbury and Hereford....
Click to read more »Rhos (GWR) railway station served the village of Rhosllanerchrugog, Denbighshire (now Wrexham), Wales, from 1901 to 1963 on the Pontcysyllte branch. The...
Click to read more »76017, GWR Castle 5029 Nunney Castle, SR Westcountry 34027 'Taw Valley', SR West Country 34105 Swanage, SR S15 828, GWR Manor 7822 Foxcote Manor, GWR 14xx...
Click to read more »or merely spatial models) like the geographically weighted regressions (GWRs), SNNs, etc., are spatially tailored (a-spatial/classic) statistical models...
Click to read more »Ammanford railway station was opened under the name Cross Inn by the Llanelly Railway in 1840 to serve the town of Ammanford, West Wales. It was renamed...
Click to read more »Great Western Railway (GWR) became the partner and a lease of the P&TR to the GWR was agreed, to take effect on 1 July 1896. The GWR absorbed the company...
Click to read more »Halt Bicester Military Rly Bicester London Road Bicester chord GWR to High Wycombe GWR Bicester cut-off to Banbury Launton Marsh Gibbon and Poundon GCML...
Click to read more »Tadcaster York and North Midland Railway 1964 Taff Merthyr Colliery Halt GWR 1964 Takeley Great Eastern Railway 1952 Talacre London and North Western...
Click to read more »Western Railway operated the services for the Wycombe Railway Company. The GWR had been built to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's broad gauge of 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2...
Click to read more »Bewdley railway of the Great Western Railway (GWR) at Cleobury Mortimer and was absorbed into the GWR in 1922. The line closed for passenger services...
Click to read more »and consisted of four-wheeled coaches. In 1895 the Great Western Railway (GWR), now at standard gauge, laid water troughs at Goring and Keynsham allowing...
Click to read more »both "up" and "down" platforms, built from heavy timbers to the standard GWR design for halt platforms. There were also waiting shelters, and steps down...
Click to read more »This is a list of all GWR Hall Class engines (to the original Churchward design) built by the Great Western Railway. Eleven of these were converted to...
Click to read more »in 1836–7, was constructed for the opening of the Great Western Railway (GWR). It is situated between Southall and Hanwell stations, the latter station...
Click to read more »Wikimedia Commons has media related to GWR 6959 Class 6990 Witherslack Hall. Allen Jackson (15 November 2019). GWR Locomotives: The Hall Class. Amberley...
Click to read more »extent to which the GWR guarantee would cover the additional cost. While the broad gauge on the line tied the OW&WR to alliance with the GWR, it installed mixed...
Click to read more »counter the critic of the Great Western Railway (GWR) actually standing for "The Great Way Round", the GWR started a series of straightening projects between...
Click to read more »traffic locomotives. GWR Saint Class; GWR Hall and Modified Hall Class; GWR Grange Class; GWR Manor Class; LNER Class B17 Flowers GWR Badminton Class Football...
Click to read more »amalgamation. Aurora (1852 – 1878) GWR no. 2099 Built by Longridge and Company. Named after the goddess Aurora. Comet (1851 – 1884) GWR no. 2096 Built by Longridge...
Click to read more »Great Western Railway (GWR) was being built across its path. A flat crossing was arranged, and by agreement of 4 February 1837 GWR trains would have precedence...
Click to read more »January 2021. "GWR aims for 2021 'Flex' introduction". Rail Express. Horncastle: Mortons Media Group. May 2021. p. 26. ISSN 1362-234X. "GWR fleet to shrink...
Click to read more »Western Railway (GWR) trains between Portsmouth Harbour and Cardiff that stop at Dean was reduced. Since October 2011, there have been no GWR trains stopping...
Click to read more »Harbour Railway St Philip's Marsh depot River Avon (to the sea) Bristol & North Somerset Rly (GWR) Bristol and Exeter Railway (GWR) to Taunton and Exeter...
Click to read more »6024 King Edward I is a preserved Great Western Railway (GWR) 6000 Class steam locomotive operated from 1930 to 1962 by the Great Western Railway and...
Click to read more »The GWR 1101 Class was a class of 0-4-0T side tank steam locomotives built by the Avonside Engine Company to the order of the Great Western Railway in...
Click to read more »reigning Porsche Carrera Cup Australia champion, having won the 2025 title with GWR Australia / RAM Motorsport. He has also competed in categories including...
Click to read more »director, becoming managing director in 1983. From here, he helped develop the GWR radio group which later merged with Capital Radio to form the biggest commercial...
Click to read more »southern terminus and only station on the Great Western Railway (GWR) branch line from the GWR/GCR joint line, which is now the Chiltern Main Line. The station...
Click to read more »of the "Big Four" grouped railway companies: the Great Western Railway (GWR), the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), the London and North Eastern...
Click to read more »tapered domeless boiler and Belpaire firebox. The locomotive was the first GWR 4-4-0 to be fitted with a tapered boiler; the boiler became the prototype...
Click to read more »until 1906, together with a connecting footbridge. The standard-pattern GWR medium-scale signal box was also added at the end of the platform, operated...
Click to read more »passengers in 1951, and completely in 1962. When the Great Western Railway (GWR) opened its first main line from London to Bristol, the ancient Borough of...
Click to read more »to include locomotives formerly known as Ariadne Class, Caliph Class, or GWR Pyracmon Class. Reed, P. J. T. (February 1953). White, D. E. (ed.). The Locomotives...
Click to read more »conveyed Welsh steam coal to the transatlantic shipping lines. (Previous GWR classes used on this work were Daniel Gooch's 79 Class 0-6-0s, and Gooch's...
Click to read more »7812 Erlestoke Manor is a preserved GWR 7800 Class steam locomotive, operated by the Great Western Railway and later British Railways. Owned by the Erlestoke...
Click to read more »hill or away from a heavy start. For many years the Great Western Railway (GWR) of the United Kingdom often maintained a unique practice when double-heading...
Click to read more »financially supported by the Great Western Railway (GWR). Other branch lines were opened, either by the GWR or independent companies which were later absorbed...
Click to read more »the Class 800s entered service with GWR in October 2017 and the first of the Class 802s entered service with GWR in August 2018, with all of the units...
Click to read more »1925 the GWR started to use the "suspended" form of gangway connection instead of the "scissors" pattern[clarification needed]. From 1938, GWR coaches...
Click to read more »media related to Newbury Racecourse railway station. "GWR December 2024 Timetable" (PDF). "GWR December 2024 Timetable" (PDF). "Basingstoke Railway History...
Click to read more »(3 December 2015). "Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy is presented with GWR certificate in honour of his record goal-scoring run". Guinness World Records...
Click to read more »contactless payment system between Reading and London Paddington on both non-stop GWR services and the Elizabeth line. This is not currently available on South...
Click to read more »Ready GWR 3700 Class GWR Green Limited Edition of 3440 City of Truro. DCC Ready GWR 4900 Class GWR Green, BR Green/Black DCC Ready GWR Dukedog Class GWR Green...
Click to read more »they were signed by Motörhead's label, GWR, in 1987, and shortened their name to Batfish. The first release on GWR was 1988's "Purple Dust" single, a mash-up...
Click to read more »previous owner, GCap Media, the group formed by the merger of GWR Group and Capital Radio Group. GWR purchased Marcher Radio Group in October 2000, although...
Click to read more »GWR goods train had to be altered. The mail train meanwhile was fast approaching Charfield and with this in mind, Button was forced to shunt the GWR goods...
Click to read more »before the Great Western Railway (GWR) had begun to construct their main lines. Devizes was regularly considered by the GWR as a main stop on its London to...
Click to read more »William Dean and built at the Swindon Works of the Great Western Railway. The GWR 2602 Class was designed to be a versatile and powerful locomotive, suitable...
Click to read more »In 1926, No 17 was reboilered by the GWR and in this form was visually almost indistinguishable from the GWR 5600 Class. Thus the R (and closely related...
Click to read more »stop automatically. One of the earliest remote control locomotives was the GWR autocoach, which replaced steam rail motors on both operational cost and...
Click to read more »(1855–1879) GWR No. 2028 48 (1855–1879) GWR No. 2029 49 (1855–1884) GWR No. 2030 50 (1855–1884) GWR No. 2031 51 (1855–1882) GWR No. 2032 52 (1855–1880) GWR No...
Click to read more »however, the Great Western Railway (GWR) was initially focused on long distance traffic. The station was opened by the GWR on 1 February 1868. Originally simply...
Click to read more »development in Great Britain, see British railcars and diesel multiple units. GWR railcars LMS railcars List of British Rail classes List of British Rail modern...
Click to read more »Railway's (GWR) Swindon to Gloucester services running on parallel tracks. Passengers at the Haresfield station were not able to board passing GWR trains...
Click to read more »was taken to transport the milk churns. From the 1880s, the GWR had introduced the popular GWR Siphon series of passenger carriage chassis-based high-speed...
Click to read more »GWR used the new through platforms. The capital costs of the new work were split 4⁄14th GWR/B&ER and 10⁄14th MR, and operating costs were split GWR 3⁄8th...
Click to read more »Railway (GWR) and the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) were engaged in a struggle to secure territory, known as the gauge war: the GWR lines were...
Click to read more »travel. From 1922 the TVR was a constituent of the new Great Western Railway (GWR) at the grouping of the railways, imposing its own character on the larger...
Click to read more »de Tehuantepec. In Great Britain, the Class 43 locomotives were numbered GWR 43022, 43158, and 43170; while the coaches were numbered LNER 41091, 41100...
Click to read more »Under the Railway Act 1921, the Cambrian Railways was allocated to the GWR. The GWR closed its competing station on 7 July 1924 and diverted all services...
Click to read more »directly into the GWR's Oxford General station. In October 1951, a complete transfer of passenger operation at Oxford into this (former GWR) station, now...
Click to read more »Ajax (SG 395 of 1860); GWR no. 2149; withdrawn 1884 The locomotive was named after Ajax, a Greek hero. Brutus (SG 396(?) of 1862) GWR no. 2150; withdrawn...
Click to read more »and Power FM. Rival GWR Group also acquired a number of local radio stations in the 1990s, including Leicester Sound, Ram FM, GWR FM, Chiltern FM, Hereward...
Click to read more »Bristol and Exeter Railway which became a part of the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1876. The Minehead Railway was taken over by the Great Western in 1897...
Click to read more »comprised two railway lines built simultaneously by the Great Western Railway (GWR) south and west from Reading in an attempt to keep the London and South Western...
Click to read more »leased to, and worked by, the Great Western Railway (GWR), before being fully absorbed by the GWR in 1905. The line was built with the hope of becoming...
Click to read more »regional director of Business in the Community, North Bristol NHS Trust, GWR West, a member of the Ethnic Minority Business Forum, the Home Office representative...
Click to read more »Great Western Railway in 1891-2 was the culmination of the tradition of GWR 2-2-2 locomotives that had begun with Gooch's North Star over 50 years earlier...
Click to read more »information Status Disused History Pre-grouping East Somerset Railway GWR Post-grouping GWR Western Region of British Railways Key dates 9 November 1858 Opened...
Click to read more »GWR 3521 class Type and origin Power type Steam Designer William Dean Builder GWR Swindon Works Order number Lots 73, 76 Serial number 1095–1114, 1117–1136...
Click to read more »the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) and the Great Western Railway (GWR), becoming a joint railway. The new partners need new and better servicing...
Click to read more »Harbour Trust. The GWR continued to use the ex-P&M steam locomotives for shunting and short-trip freight train workings throughout the GWR's existence. Latterly...
Click to read more »vessel, a class of ships constructed by the Royal Navy beginning in 1980 GWR Castle class locomotive, a class of steam locomotives of the British Great...
Click to read more »Great Western Railway (GWR) sponsored the South Wales Railway to build a broad gauge railway connecting Gloucester, and the GWR network, with Fishguard...
Click to read more »Railway to operate the line and guarantee good dividends from 1906. The GWR incorporated the line's infrastructure in widening its own lines at Court...
Click to read more »station directly alongside the GWR station known as Leamington Spa (Avenue). In 1864, a connection was made between the GWR and LNWR lines at Leamington...
Click to read more »planned extension was westward to Ealing. In 1905, the Great Western Railway (GWR) had obtained legal powers in the Great Western Railway (New Railways) Act...
Click to read more »GWR to take over the line, but the GWR were not prepared to consider that. In the face of shortage of money Pain gave notice in June 1877 to the GWR that...
Click to read more »station opened by the Great Western Railway (GWR) on the former Bullo Pill Railway, later known as the GWR Forest of Dean Branch. The Halt was located...
Click to read more »Rattlebrook Peat Works 204⅕ Bridestowe Lydford Viaduct GWR to Launceston 207¼ Lydford 208¾ Brentor GWR to Plymouth River Wallabrook Viaduct 213¾ Tavistock...
Click to read more »the GWR from London to Bristol via Reading, Swindon and Bath, Somerset. The original Bristol Harbour Railway (BHR) was a joint venture by the GWR and...
Click to read more »standard GWR building with a large canopy. The station had "Somerset" added to its name from 12 January 1906. The station was host to a GWR camp coach...
Click to read more »They had 5 ft 0 in (1.524 m) diameter driving wheels and, unlike other GWR 2-4-0s, only had inside frames. They were nominally rebuilds but only the...
Click to read more »Grange Court junction station, and would be taken over by the GWR in 1862. In 1863 the GWR also absorbed the South Wales Railway. The Gloucester and Dean...
Click to read more »was actually sited in Battersea). These were the Great Western Railway (GWR), the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR), and the East Kent Railway...
Click to read more »hour (64 km/h). 27 people were killed. The locomotive involved was GWR King Class GWR 6028 King Class King George VI which was subsequently repaired and...
Click to read more »tickets | GWR". www.gwr.com. Retrieved 12 July 2026. "Estimates of station usage | ORR Data Portal". dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2026. "GWR December...
Click to read more »public address system, information screens, CCTV and Wi-Fi. In May 2021, GWR said they would work with the local community to add new facilities including...
Click to read more »brake (rail) Cab (locomotive) Control car Double-heading Distributed power GWR Autocoach Rail terminology Railway brakes Top and tail Simmons, Jack; Biddle...
Click to read more »succeeded by a new ship of the same name, TSS Great Western and was renamed G.W.R. No. 20 until sold for scrapping by John Cashmore of Newport, Monmouthshire...
Click to read more »GWR 157 Class may refer to either of two classes of Great Western Railway engine: "Sharps" or 157 Class (ten 2-2-2 locomotives built in 1862 to Gooch's...
Click to read more »Railway in June 1872, where it was renamed Stromboli. It returned to the GWR upon absorption of the SDR in 1876, when it was given the number 2138 but...
Click to read more »serve the area south of Helston in Cornwall, the Great Western Railway (GWR) decided to test the market with bus services on the route. They learnt that...
Click to read more »built by Hudswell Clarke in 1921 just before the company was absorbed by the GWR. These had superheaters and larger cylinders and were classified AP. The...
Click to read more »Barton Hill MPD. Initial steam power was supplied by GWR 7800 Class 7802 Bradley Manor and GWR 4073 Class 5051 Earl Bathurst, but has varied since by...
Click to read more »Railway was operated by the Great Western Railway from October 1877, the GWR shed code being SBZ. A new, elevated coaling road and 45,000 gallon water...
Click to read more »assistant. A year later, Joseph Armstrong was promoted to the position of the GWR's Chief Locomotive Engineer and moved to Swindon Works. George Armstrong,...
Click to read more »seventh studio album by English rock band Motörhead, released in July 1986 by GWR Records, the band's first album with the label. It is the band's first album...
Click to read more »until 1907 as GWR No. 2, after which it was sold to the Bute Works Supply Company. Named after a monarch, see King. Prince (1871–1892) GWR No. 2137 Prince...
Click to read more »Railway (GWR) reached an agreement under which they were to work closely together from 1 July 1861 with a view to full amalgamation. The GWR, WMR and...
Click to read more »Wallingford branch line opened, it ran regular passenger shuttle services to the GWR mainline for almost a century. It closed to passengers in 1959; the line...
Click to read more »Years active 1969–present Labels UA Charisma Bronze RCA/Active Flicknife GWR EBS Voiceprint Cherry Red Spinoffs Hawklords (1970s) Hawklords (2000s) Inner...
Click to read more »continued to play a role in the battle between the LSWR and its allies, and the GWR and its satellites. Several nominally independent companies sought support...
Click to read more »1930 M class No 47 was reboilered by the GWR and in this form was visually almost indistinguishable from the GWR 5600 Class. Thus the M, R (and closely...
Click to read more »Bristol and Exeter Railway. 93 (1875 – 1880) GWR No. 1378 94 (1875 – 1880) GWR No. 1379 95 (1875 – 1880) GWR No. 1380 Reed 1956, p. C64. Reed, P. J. T....
Click to read more »ticket hall and the provision of step-free access. The Great Western Railway (GWR) opened its pioneering broad gauge tracks through Ealing Broadway between...
Click to read more »locomotives 2-cylinder standard classes British Railways steam locomotives GWR locomotives LMS locomotives LNER locomotives Southern Railway locomotives...
Click to read more »out from Bristol to Plymouth with fellow GWR engine Drysllwyn Castle during the 150th Anniversary of the GWR in 1985. 4930 also featured running passenger...
Click to read more »amalgamated with the Great Western Railway (GWR) which had operated its trains from the outset. Under GWR ownership, the Portskewett branch was converted...
Click to read more »Harbour Railway St Philip's Marsh depot River Avon (to the sea) Bristol & North Somerset Rly (GWR) Bristol and Exeter Railway (GWR) to Taunton and Exeter...
Click to read more »companies were also seeking a terminus in Westminster: the Great Western (GWR), the London and North Western (LNWR), and the East Kent Railway (EKR). The...
Click to read more »located north of Shrewsbury on the GWR's Paddington to Birkenhead main line. It was opened in the 1930s as part of the GWR's halt construction programme, aimed...
Click to read more »'Chard' on 1 March 1928, but it appeared as such in GWR timetables before that date. 1948 saw the SR and GWR nationalised as British Railways and from 26 September...
Click to read more »the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) and the Great Western Railway (GWR). It remained a joint railway until nationalisation of the railways in 1948...
Click to read more »Dean's most successful 2-4-0 design. Numbered 3206–3225, they were the last GWR locos built at Swindon with "sandwich" frames (outside frames consisting...
Click to read more »from London to Exeter. The GWR's longer route via Bristol became nicknamed the "Great Way Round" (after its initials GWR).[page needed] The direct line...
Click to read more »assist the campers. In a similar way to the LMS the Great Western Railway (GWR) introduced their camp coach holidays scheme in 1934 after they had seen...
Click to read more »Kingsbridge railway station was the terminus station of the single track branch GWR line from Brent to the town of Kingsbridge. The station opened in December...
Click to read more »Y11 J45/DES1 DES2 GCR petrol-electric railcar see also British Railways steam locomotives GWR locomotives LMS locomotives Southern Railway locomotives...
Click to read more »1999. A freight train crashed on 10 November 1971 partially demolishing the GWR signal box, which was then replaced by a modern wooden flat roofed signal...
Click to read more »Rail timetable, Dec 2025 Cooke, R.A. (1977). Track Layout Diagrams of the GWR and BR WR: Section 10, West Cornwall. Harwell: R.A. Cooke. Pryer, G.A. (2000)...
Click to read more »several steam and diesel locomotives including: GWR 4575 class number 5553 GWR 5205 class number 5224 GWR 5600 class number 6634 British Rail Class 08 number...
Click to read more »charges the GWR imposed on M&SWJR trains. Finally, the northern section of the M&SWJR was extended in 1891 from Cirencester to a junction with the GWR Banbury...
Click to read more »it was opened in 1877 as a joint station for the Great Western Railway (GWR) and the London and South Western Railway (LSWR). It was expanded in 1908...
Click to read more »which is 10 miles (16 km) long, runs on part of the former Ruabon – Barmouth GWR route that closed in 1965. It operates daily services in the summer as well...
Click to read more »metres) from the central bus station and the town centre. It is served by GWR services from Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads; Cheltenham Spa via Gloucester;...
Click to read more »new owners but continued to carry their names too. Achilles (1873–1892) GWR no. 2165 Converted to standard gauge and worked in this form as no. 1324...
Click to read more »Original company Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway Pre-grouping GWR and LNWR joint Post-grouping GWR and LMS joint Key dates 1854 Opened 1954 Closed Location...
Click to read more »Railway, was incorporated. The GWR was to work the line when built, and to have a controlling interest. Notwithstanding GWR sponsorship, the line was to...
Click to read more »Station (Town, unless in station name) Rail company Year closed St Agnes GWR 1963 St Albans (London Road) Hatfield and St. Albans Railway 1951 St Andrew...
Click to read more »Reading; the Crossrail project included electrification of this stretch. Some GWR inner suburban services using the GWML into Paddington were transferred to...
Click to read more »These features make it suitable for negotiating sharp curves. GWR 1101 Class GWR 1361 Class GWR 1366 Class LSWR B4 class LB&SCR E2 class SR USA class British...
Click to read more »their new owners but continued to carry their names too. Tiny (1868 – 1883) GWR no. 2180 Tiny was built by Sara and Company of Penryn, Cornwall. It has a...
Click to read more »(GWR) commissioned him to create a set of cartoons on the theme of the GWR itself, which they then published as Railway Ribaldry. The Foreword (by GWR)...
Click to read more »Retrieved 7 October 2022. Having outgrown their existing space in Warren Street GWR appointed CBRE to start an extensive building search, which ultimately led...
Click to read more »Railway 1968 Garnant GWR 1958 Garnant Halt GWR 1926 Garndiffaith L&NWR 1941 Garneddwen Corris Railway 1931 Garneddwen Halt GWR 1965 Garngad North British...
Click to read more »When the GWR abolished the broad gauge in the Gloucester area, a junction was made once again, operative from 21 April 1873, allowing GWR trains approaching...
Click to read more »The Great Western Railway (GWR) 3901 Class is a class of 2-6-2T steam locomotives rebuilt from class 2301 'Dean Goods' 0-6-0 tender locomotives. In 1907...
Click to read more »creeks, to which a siding was opened in 1929. Authorisation was given by the GWR board to double the line from Greenway Viaduct to Britannia Halt, and the...
Click to read more »Isles, but also in the world. In 1860, the Great Western Railway Company (GWR) approved the provision of Turkish baths for its workers and their families...
Click to read more »of time the broad gauge had been eliminated on South Wales, enabling the GWR to develop mineral haulage from the area to London, West of England and South...
Click to read more »101.7. It was then changed back to Ten 17 when it was bought by GWR. Ten 17's owners, GWR, later merged with Capital Radio to become GCap. The station was...
Click to read more »in 1860. In turn, the WMR was absorbed intro the Great Western Railway (GWR) between 1863 and 1870. The opening of the Severn Valley Railway in 1862...
Click to read more »The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWR, GWSR or Gloucs-Warks Steam Railway) is a volunteer-run heritage railway which runs along the...
Click to read more »1953 Marston Halt GWR 1955 Marston Lane GWR 1864 Marston Magna GWR 1966 Marston Moor NER 1958 Marteg Halt GWR 1962 Martell Bridge Halt GWR 1937 Martham Midland...
Click to read more »North Road (Joint) Plymouth Millbay (GWR) Devonport Albert Road (GWR) Devonport Kings Road (LSWR) Dockyard (GWR) Albert Road Halt (LSWR) Ford (LSWR) Camels...
Click to read more »the line (see next section). Steventon was briefly the headquarters of the GWR: in October 1841, the Board decided to merge the previously-separate London...
Click to read more »west of the English county of Dorset. It consisted of a single platform and GWR pagoda shelter. Opened on 1 May 1906, it was sited next to an overbridge...
Click to read more »the second had a larger 1,200 gallon one. 75 (1866 – 1888) GWR No. 2092 76 (1867 – 1890) GWR No. 2093 Two standard gauge 0-6-0T locomotives were built...
Click to read more »supported by the Great Western Railway, at Oswestry. The relationship with the GWR was sometimes rocky, however. On 2 September 1858 the London and North Western...
Click to read more »junction at Barton unresolved. In fact the GWR considered the HH&BR line worthy of developing as an ally, and the GWR General Manager, John Grierson, visited...
Click to read more »December 1963. The allocations of 'Cookham Manor' during its service for the GWR and British Railways. The locomotive initially saw considerable main line...
Click to read more »the P&DR at a time, in the 1870s, when the rival Great Western Railway (GWR) was dominant. The LSWR had established a terminal for goods services at...
Click to read more »Wantage Road station was opened in 1846, six years after the section of the GWR main line that served it. In 1873 the independent Wantage Tramway was formed...
Click to read more »rebuilt with taper boilers and superheaters by the Great Western Railway (GWR) from 1924. The first loco withdrawn was 402 in April 1948 from Treherbert...
Click to read more »new owners but continued to carry their names too. Gorgon (1866 – 1892) GWR no. 2122 On a foggy Christmas Day in 1883, Gorgon was put on the front of...
Click to read more »subsequently transferred to the GWR, still on loan from the WD, but retained their LMS numbers. No. 407, then on loan to the GWR and running as LMS 8293, was...
Click to read more »8 February 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2015. Colin G. Maggs (2013). The GWR Bristol To Bath. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 9781445625829. Retrieved 1 February...
Click to read more »London, was a major trans-shipment point between the Great Western Railway (GWR) and barges on the River Thames. The building of Brentford Dock was started...
Click to read more »figures have been called Y Mab Darogan in history (other titles include Y Gŵr Darogan and Y Daroganwr). An extensive corpus of medieval Welsh prophetic...
Click to read more »Western Railway (GWR) on 1 August 1863. As one of the many branch lines on the GWR's extensive network, it was subsequently referred to in GWR timetables as...
Click to read more »cylinders. 2-4-0s, being mixed-traffic engines, were not usually named on the GWR, but all of the 69s did carry names, as follows: 69 Avon 70 Dart 71 Dee 72...
Click to read more »by the Great Western Railway (GWR) and the Midland Railway (MR) companies. The railway ran from a junction with the GWR at Narroways Hill, just north...
Click to read more »two locomotives in the GWR Iron Duke Class Emperor, a locomotive in the South Devon Railway Buffalo class Emperor, one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives...
Click to read more »GWR 103 President and GWR 104 Alliance 104, Alliance Type and origin Power type Steam Designer G.J. Churchward Builder Société Alsacienne de Constructions...
Click to read more »main and branch line connections could be made. The Great Western Railway (GWR) operated the line from its opening until 1849 and absorbed the whole B&ER...
Click to read more »'Halls', and large ex-mainline diesel engines. Following the purchase of GWR Castle Class No.7029 Clun Castle in January 1966 by Patrick Whitehouse, the...
Click to read more »meaning that the GWR could not compete on journey times. The second phase was completed in 1906. In order to create a more direct route, the GWR collaborated...
Click to read more »Built between December 1838 and June 1841 for the Great Western Railway (GWR) under the direction of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the straight tunnel descends...
Click to read more »the length of the former Wallingford branch of the Great Western Railway (GWR), from Cholsey station, 12 miles (19 km) north of Reading on the Great Western...
Click to read more »labels, including Flicknife, their former manager Douglas Smith's label GWR, Essential (through Castle Communications), and from 1994 to 1997 their own...
Click to read more »Anthony Lovering 4 May 2016 GWR Radio-controlled car (battery-powered) 325.12 202.02 RC Bullet Nic Case 25 Oct 2014 GWR Steam-powered 238.679 148.308...
Click to read more »2016. Retrieved December 27, 2016. Rocher, Sofia (December 13, 2016). "GWR honors Floyd Mayweather Jr. and other boxing greats at the 54th World Boxing...
Click to read more »EAR 31 Box Tunnel replica at Stapleford with, appropriately, the extinct GWR Saint Class locomotive External site about Stapleford Avengers tv locations...
Click to read more »the land was James Montgomrey's Montgomrey's Wharf. A spur line from the GWR at Southall was constructed to the Brentford Dock railway station to facilitate...
Click to read more »Festiniog and Blaenau Railway The Bala and Festiniog Railway, which was a GWR proxy The London and North Western Railway British Railways and the revived...
Click to read more »particularly in the development of geographically weighted regression (GWR) and multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR). Fotheringham received...
Click to read more »with. A lawsuit was successfully brought against the GWR in 1853, and on 31 July 1854, the GWR obtained a fresh Act of Parliament granting an extension...
Click to read more »replaced by more GWR styles. The tenders were fitted with vertical weatherboards and spectacle windows. In 1922, on absorption by the GWR, their cabs were...
Click to read more »just north of White City (ex-GWR, closed 1938), at North Acton (ex-GWR, closed 1964), and at Ealing Broadway (connection to GWR, closed 1972, and siding connections...
Click to read more »No. 1 (GWR 699) was withdrawn in April 1931 and sold to Coltness Iron Co Ltd in June 1932; it was cut up on site in March 1962. No. 2 (GWR 700) was...
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