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The GWR was the only company to keep its identity through the Railways Act 1921, which amalgamated it with the remaining independent railways within its territory, and it was finally wound up at the end of 1947 when it was nationalised and became the Western Region of British Railways.
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* Iron Duke was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.
* Quicksilver was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915, formerly named St. George before 1907
* Ulysses was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915 ; renamed Grierson after 1895
* Wellington was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
* Crusader was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
* Worcester was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915, formerly named Thames up to 1895
Between 1841 and 1842, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Swindon Works was built for the repair and maintenance of locomotives on the Great Western Railway ( GWR ).
In the village were the GWR Medical Fund Clinic at Park House and its hospital, both on Faringdon Road, and the 1892 health centre in Milton Road – which housed clinics, a pharmacy, laundries, baths, Turkish baths and swimming pools – was almost opposite.
; 1920: In the west, a short connecting link was made from Wood Lane station to join the Great Western Railway ( GWR )- operated line, the Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Railway, allowing trains to run to Ealing Broadway.
The former Iron Bridge and Broseley railway station, on the Severn Valley line ( GWR ) from Hartlebury to Shrewsbury, was situated on the south side of the Iron Bridge until 1966.
The original terminal station was built in 1839-41 for the Great Western Railway ( GWR ), the first passenger railway in Bristol, and was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the railway's engineer.
The GWR built a goods shed on the north side of the station adjacent to the Floating Harbour, with a small dock for transhipment of goods to barges ( though not to sea-going ships as the wharf was upstream of Bristol Bridge ).
The B & ER converted to mixed gauge the line from Bristol as far as Taunton by 1 June 1875, but the remainder of the line to Exeter was not done until 1 March 1876, three months after the B & ER had amalgamated with the GWR.
Hence when the GWR absorbed the B & ER in 1876 the split was GWR 5 / 8 and MR ( later LMS ) 3 / 8 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948.
The new Bristol Temple Meads East box was the largest on the GWR with 368 miniature levers operated by three signalmen assisted by a " booking boy ".
The Great Western Railway ( GWR ) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales.
The GWR was called by some " God's Wonderful Railway " and by others the " Great Way Round " but it was famed as the " Holiday Line ", taking many people to resorts in South-West England.
That was an independent line worked by the GWR, as was the Bristol and Exeter Railway ( B & ER ), the first section of which from Bristol to was opened on 14 June 1841.
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It was the first 4-6-2 ( Pacific ) locomotive used on a railway in Great Britain, and the only one of that type ever built by the GWR.
Although showy polished brass covers over safety valves had been a feature of steam locomotives since Stephenson's day, the only railway to maintain this tradition into the era of pop valves was the GWR, with their distinctive tapered brass safety valve bonnets and copper-capped chimneys.
It was the southern terminus and only station on the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) branch line from the GWR / GCR joint line, which is now the Chiltern Main Line.
At the time of the 1923 Grouping the standard headcodes were simplified so that only two lamps were used at any one time, and these codes were adopted by the post-grouping London Midland and Scottish Railway, the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) and the London and North Eastern Railway.
On 13 March 2009, Ofcom issued GWR Bristol with a " yellow card " after a content sampling report showed that only 47 % of GWR Bristol's music was from the past 2 years, much lower than its minimum 75 %.
The Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway had been opened in 1856, giving broad gauge access to the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) system, but the Somerset Central wanted only to get standard gauge access to the Dorset Central Railway and the South Coast.
* Teifi Valley Railway Opened by preservationists on the old GWR standard gauge trackbed between Pencader Junction and Newcastle Emlyn ( currently only runs Henllan-Pontprenshitw-Llandyfriog )
The GWR turned it into a service solely for tourists, freight services being withdrawn, and from 1931 trains only operated during the summer months.
Early railway hotels had only been situated near large terminals or junctions, but this one was the first intended by the GWR as a holiday destination in its own right.
The locomotives bogie and rear wheels are also from another GWR tender, however the large driving wheels are only half complete ( the lower half ) and they do not sit directly on the rail.
In the event the favoured inside Stephenson link motion of the GWR was used, but the GWR 1500 Class, also designed by Hawksworth, used outside Walschaerts – the only locomotive designed by the GWR to do so.
Innovations included double chimneys on certain members ( the only GWR class ever to have double chimneys fitted by the GWR ) and a high boiler pressure of 280psi ( though this was later lowered in an attempt to reduce maintenance costs ).
The 1366 class was one of only two pannier tank designs built by the GWR that utilised outside cylinders, although various existing engines inherited by the GWR had Pannier Tanks and outside cylinders.
The 5600 Class had the distinction of being the only locomotive of 0-6-2 wheel arrangement built new by the GWR.
The GWR 6400 Class and 7400 Class that followed were closely related, fundamentally differing only in wheel size-- and, in the case of the 74xx, a higher boiler pressure of.
The GWR service ran for only a few months in 1870.
For nearly a decade this was the only rail route to the city, until 30 June 1856 when the GWR opened their branch line from Westbury, and 1 May 1857 when the LSWR extended their main line from London to Andover.
Lode Star is the only remaining GWR 4000 Class locomotive.
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The Minehead Railway was amalgamated into the GWR in 1897 but the West Somerset Railway remained an independent company for the time being although all its assets continued to be leased to the bigger company.
The GWR did not pursue the Pacific wheel arrangement, and subsequently stayed with the 4-6-0 arrangement which later became synonymous with the company.
* GWR Group, former commercial radio company: owned radio stations, GWR FM ( Bristol & Bath ) and GWR FM Wiltshire
Reuters then brought in additional shareholders, and between 1996 and 2002 LBC was part of London News Radio Limited, a company owned jointly by ITN, Daily Mail and General Trust, Reuters and the GWR Group.
As an associated company of the GWR, this was a broad gauge line.
The new company extended the existing lines to Holyhead, the Warrington line to Lancaster and Carlisle, the Manchester line to Leeds, and built the new Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway to Shrewsbury to join the joint GWR owned Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, which provided connections to South Wales.
Near Bradford Abbas it crossed over the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth line of the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) on a bridge, then ran alongside it and the Yeovil Branch Line of the Bristol and Exeter Railway ( B & ER ) to reach that company ’ s terminus at, on the west side of Yeovil.
Between 1858 and 1860 the company joined with the London, Chatham and Dover Railway ( LC & DR ), the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) and the London & North Western Railway ( LNWR ) to form the Victoria Station & Pimlico Railway Company, which constructed a new bridge over the River Thames at Battersea and an important new terminus in the west end of London at Victoria.
Originally conceived as a broad-gauge line between Carmarthen and Cardigan by the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway, it was absorbed into the GWR who developed the line into Newcastle Emlyn, the company saw no point in developing the line beyond this point, and so it became a terminus.
The Manchester and Southampton Railway ( MSR ) agreed to buy the canal for £ 30, 000 in 1845, but while the bill was progressing through Parliament, the railway company and the London and South Western Railway ( LSWR ) agreed to share ownership of both the canal and the railway line from Redbridge to Andover, at which point the Great Western Railway ( GWR ) objected, and the bill was defeated.
A complicated series of negotiations then took place, with the GWR attempting to buy the canal, then encouraging the canal company to form the Andover Canal Railway Company, which would build a broad-gauge railway along its course to Southampton, and finally both companies trying to buy the canal.
GWR is the operating company whereas Westcan Rail Saskatchewan Ltd. is the owner of the track and structures.
Originally owned by ( and officially remains licenced to ) Orchard Media Ltd, the company was purchased by GWR Group in 1999, and who subsequently became GCap Media in 2005.
The company which formerly owned GWR, the GWR Group, expanded from the late 1980s / early 1990s onwards to purchase other stations throughout the country.
The GWR Group expanded from the late 1980s through to 2005, purchasing other stations throughout southern England, eventually becoming the largest radio company in the UK.
In 1996 Reuters sold London Radio Services to the newly formed London News Radio ( unrelated to the previous LNR company ), in which ITN, DMGT, Reuters and GWR Group held equal shares.
In the mid 1990s, GEM's owners Midland Radio plc were bought, by expanding radio company GWR, which gradually networked the station's programming with that of other gold stations it had purchased elsewhere in the country.
By the end of the 1990s, Classic Gold GEM and GWR's network of other medium wave Classic Gold stations across the country were sold to media company UBC, in order for GWR to comply with government rules of the time, restricting how much share of listening one company could own.
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