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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.
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 ...
The Great Western Railway War Memorial is a First World War memorial by Charles Sargeant Jagger and Thomas S. Tait. It stands on platform 1 at London Paddington station, commemorating the 2,500 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 ...
Joseph Armstrong (1864–1877) William Dean (1877–1902) George Jackson Churchward (1902–1915) Chief Mechanical Engineer. George Jackson Churchward (1915–1921) Charles Collett (1922–1941) Frederick Hawksworth (1941–1947) Northern Division Locomotive Superintendent. Joseph Armstrong (1854–1864)
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.
Mitcheldean Road and Forest of Dean Junction Railway (1880) §. Ely and Clydach Valleys Railway (1880) Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway (1 July 1882) Berks and Hants Extension Railway (10 August 1882) ♠. Swindon and Highworth Railway (1882) §. Torbay and Brixham Railway (1 January 1883) ♥.
The Great Western and Great Central Joint 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) and Ashendon Junction (west of Aylesbury). It was laid out as a trunk route with gentle curves and gradients and spacious track layouts.
Construction of the Crossrail Portal at Royal Oak, the Great Western Main Line in the right, July 2011. Crossrail is a major rail scheme, under construction since 2009, to provide a new east–west railway connection under Central London. The western portion of the line will connect with the Great Western Main Line to the west of Paddington.