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Great Western Railway. The Great Western Railway ( reporting mark GWRS) is a Canadian short line railway company operating on former Canadian Pacific Railway trackage in Southwest Saskatchewan. [1] Great Western Railway Ltd. is an operating company that services the line and is locally owned and operated by farmers and municipalities in ...
A ground proximity warning system ( GPWS) is a system designed to alert pilots if their aircraft is in immediate danger of flying into the ground or an obstacle. The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) defines GPWS as a type of terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS). [1] More advanced systems, introduced in 1996, [2] are ...
GHBX - G. Heileman Brewing Company. GHH - Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad. GHRD - Green Hills Rural Development (Chillicothe-Brunswick Rail Maintenance Authority) GHRX - GHR Energy Corporation. GIEX - General American Marks Company. GIHX - Gifford-Hill & Company (Cornerstone C & M Incorporated); Hanson. GILX - Gilman Paper Company.
The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWR, GWSR or Gloucs-Warks Steam Railway) is a volunteer-run heritage railway which runs along the Gloucestershire / Worcestershire border of the Cotswolds in England. The GWSR has restored and reopened around 14 miles (23 km) of track, operating between Cheltenham Race Course and Broadway.
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. They were the largest locomotives built by the GWR, apart from the unique Pacific ( The Great Bear ). The class was named after kings of the United Kingdom and of England, beginning with the ...
1957-1962. Disposition. All scrapped. The LSWR 700 class was a class of 30 0-6-0 steam locomotives designed for freight work. The class was designed by Dugald Drummond in 1897 for the London and South Western Railway in England and built by Dübs and Company at that company's Queen's Park works at Polmadie, Glasgow, Scotland .
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 line of 1838, through to bogie coaches up to 70 feet (21 m) long which were in service through to 1947. Vacuum brakes, bogies and through-corridors all came into use during the nineteenth century ...
Retired. (rebuilt 1924) July 1953. Disposition. Front end reused to build another GWR 4073 Class, rest of the locomotive was scrapped. The Great Bear, number 111, was a locomotive of the Great Western Railway. It was the first 4-6-2 (Pacific) locomotive used on a railway in Great Britain, [2] and the only one of its type built by the GWR.