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History; 1835: Act of incorporation: 1838: First train ran: 1869–92: 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) Brunel gauge changed to 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge 1903: Start of road motor services
A green Great Western tank engine who lives and works on the Island of Sodor on the North Western Railway. After being saved from scrap by Douglas, he runs the Little Western with Duck and his own brake van, Toad. GWR 1400 Class: Joe Mills Bill and Ben: SCC 01 and 02 A pair of yellow saddle tank engine twins belonging to the Sodor China Clay ...
The Great Southern and Western Railway (GS&WR) was an Irish gauge (1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)) railway company in Ireland from 1844 [2] until 1924. [3] The GS&WR grew by building lines and making a series of takeovers, until in the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was the largest of Ireland's "Big Four" railway networks.
The actual Great Western Railway (GWR) line was to be from Tobermory to Camooweal, following an alignment proposed in the 1880s for a railway from Sydney to Darwin via Bourke. This south-east to north-west alignment paralleled the Queensland coastline, having the benefit of providing roughly equidistant connections to the ports.
Great Western Railway (train operating company), traded as Great Western Trains until 1998, then First Great Western until 2015 Great Western Holdings , a company formed in 1994 to bid (successfully) for the Great Western franchise
Great Western Railway; Rhymney Railway 51 miles (82 km) Taff Vale Railway 124 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (199 km) These amalgamated on 1 January 1922, and the company continued to use the name Great Western Railway, and its new board of directors included representatives from all seven of the constituent companies.
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 listed structures .
Former Great Western Railway stations (21 C, 1,296 P) Pages in category "Great Western Railway" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.