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2. Great Western Railway - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Great Western Railway (train operating company) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

4. Great Western Main Line - Wikipedia

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   The Great Western Main Line (GWML) is a main line railway in England that runs westwards from London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads. It connects to other main lines such as those from Reading to Penzance and Swindon to Swansea. [2] The GWML is presently a part of the national rail system managed by Network Rail while the majority of ...

5. Cornish Riviera Express - Wikipedia

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   Cornish. Technical. Rolling stock. Class 802/1. Operating speed. 125 mph. The Cornish Riviera Express is a British express passenger train that has run between London Paddington and Penzance in Cornwall since 1904. Introduced by the Great Western Railway, the name Cornish Riviera Express has been applied to the late morning express train from ...

6. List of Great Western Railway heritage sites - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. Atlantic Coast Express - Wikipedia

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   Rolling stock. Class 802/1. Operating speed. 125 mph. The Atlantic Coast Express ( ACE) is an express passenger train in England that has operated at various times between London and seaside resorts in the South West England. It is currently operated as a summer only service by Great Western Railway between London Paddington and Newquay .

8. Western Region of British Railways - Wikipedia

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   The Western Region was a region of British Railways from 1948. The region ceased to be an operating unit in its own right on completion of the "Organising for Quality" initiative on 6 April 1992. The Region consisted principally of ex- Great Western Railway lines, minus certain lines west of Birmingham, which were transferred to the London ...

9. Chiltern Main Line - Wikipedia

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   Chiltern Main Line. Chiltern Railways London to Birmingham express near Hatton, hauled by a Class 68 diesel locomotive. The Chiltern Main Line is a railway line which links London ( Marylebone) and Birmingham ( Moor Street and Snow Hill) on a 112-mile (180 km) route via High Wycombe, Bicester, Banbury, Leamington Spa and Solihull in England.