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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 ...
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 Southwestern Saskatchewan.
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.
The Great Western, an album by James Dean Bradfield. Great Western Building, colonial-era residence, court and hotel in Mumbai, India. Great Western Cattle Trail, cattle driving trail, US. The Great Western Chorus of Bristol, a men's a cappella chorus singing primarily in the Barbershop style.
The Great Western Railway Hawthorn Class were 2-4-0 broad gauge steam locomotives for passenger train work. This class was introduced into service in 1865, a development of the Victoria Class . Twenty locomotives were ordered from Slaughter, Grüning and Company and given the names of famous engineers. The remaining six were built by the ...
The Great Western Main Line was equipped with colour light signalling common to the rest of the United Kingdom. At the time of the Ladbroke Grove rail crash (1999), the ATP (Automatic Train Protection) warning system was under trial. In response to that incident, it became a requirement for all First Great Western trains to be fitted with ATP.
60. SS Great Western was a wooden-hulled paddle-wheel steamship with four masts, [3] the first steamship purpose-built for crossing the Atlantic, and the initial unit of the Great Western Steamship Company. [4] Completed in 1838, she was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1837 to 1839, the year the SS British Queen went into service.