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Great Western Railway ( GWR) is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that operates the Greater Western passenger railway franchise. It manages 197 stations and its trains call at over 270. GWR operates long-distance inter-city services along the Great Western Main Line to and from the West of England and South Wales, inter-city ...
Yellow. Up to 16 long tons 0 cwt (35,800 lb or 16.3 t) 2251, 4500, Class 22. Uncoloured. Up to 14 long tons 0 cwt (31,400 lb or 14.2 t) 1366, 2301. As with the power classifications, locomotives loaned to the GWR in World War II were given GWR weight restriction colours.
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. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838 with the initial route completed between London and Bristol in 1841.
Rail transport. Rail transport terms are a form of technical terminology applied to railways. Although many terms are uniform across different nations and companies, they are by no means universal, with differences often originating from parallel development of rail transport systems in different parts of the world, and in the national origins ...
GWR locomotive numbering and classification. The GWR was the longest-lived of the pre-nationalisation railway companies in Britain, surviving the 'Grouping' of the railways in 1923 almost unchanged. As a result, the history of its numbering and classification of locomotives is relatively complicated. This page explains the principal systems ...
Bristol Temple Meads station. Penzance station. Box Tunnel. Windsor Bridge. Great Western Railway heritage sites are those places where stations, bridges and other infrastructure built by the Great Western Railway and its constituent railways can still be found. These may be heritage railways, museums, operational railway stations, or isolated ...
Automatic Warning System ( AWS) is a railway safety system invented and predominantly used in the United Kingdom. It provides a train driver with an audible indication of whether the next signal they are approaching is clear or at caution. [1] Depending on the upcoming signal state, the AWS will either produce a 'horn' sound (as a warning ...
Great Western Railway (train operating company), British railway company (1996–) Great Western Main Line, a railway line in the UK. Great Western Railway (disambiguation), other railway companies and routes with the name. Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, an English heritage railway. Aura Airlines (ICAO airline code: GWR ), a Spanish airline.