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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...
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    First Greater Western, trading as Great Western Railway (GWR), is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that provides services in the...
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    Locomotives of the Great Western Railway (GWR) were specified by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but Daniel Gooch was soon appointed as the railway's Locomotive Superintendent...
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    The Chicago Great Western Railway (reporting mark CGW) was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City. It was founded...
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    The Great Western Railway was a railway that operated in Canada West, today's province of Ontario, Canada. It was the first railway chartered in the province...
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    Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway is an oil painting by the 19th-century British painter J. M. W. Turner. The painting was first exhibited...
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    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 until 1924. The GS&WR grew...
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    The Great Western Main Line (GWML) is a main line railway in England that runs westwards from London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads. It connects to...
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    The Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR) was the third largest Irish gauge (1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)) railway company in Ireland. It was incorporated in 1845...
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    STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway, also known as Swindon Steam Railway Museum, is housed in part of the former railway works in Swindon, England...
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  • Great Western Railway was a British railway company operating from 1833 to 1947. Great Western Railway or Great Western Railroad may also refer to the...
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  • The Tasmanian Great Western Railway was a proposed railway that was never built to connect Hobart with the west coast during the 1890s mining boom in Tasmania...
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    SS Great Western was a wooden-hulled paddle-wheel steamship with four masts, the first steamship purpose-built for crossing the Atlantic, and the initial...
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    The trains are currently in service with Gatwick Express, Great Northern, Great Western Railway, Heathrow Express and Southern. The Class 387 is a variation...
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    fleet of Great Western Railway wagons was both large and varied as it carried the wide variety of goods traffic on the Great Western Railway (GWR) in...
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    driver error. On 31 October 2021, a South Western Railway Class 159 unit, 159102, collided with Great Western Railway class 158 coupled units, 158762 and 158763...
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    South Western Railway (SWR; legal name First MTR South Western Trains Limited,) is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup (70%) and MTR...
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    The Great Western Railway (reporting mark GWRS) is a Canadian short line railway company operating on former Canadian Pacific Railway trackage in Southwest...
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    Railway Centre is a railway museum and preservation engineering site in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England. The site was formerly a Great Western Railway engine...
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    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...
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    EMUs. The class is still in service, now operated by Great Western Railway and by Chiltern Railways. When operated originally by Network SouthEast, along...
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    The Great Western Railway of Colorado (reporting mark GWR) operates about 80 miles (129 km) of track in Colorado and interchanges with the Union Pacific...
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  • 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)...
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    Great Western Railway accidents include several notable incidents that influenced rail safety in the United Kingdom. In common with other railway companies...
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  • originally of Canada West Great Western Railway (Saskatchewan), a short line railway in Canada Chicago Great Western Railway, US Great Western Railroad (Illinois)...
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  • The Great Western Railway was a railway company that was dominant in West Wales, in the United Kingdom. The main line from Swansea to Neyland, a port...
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    designs and ingenious constructions". Brunel built dockyards, the Great Western Railway (GWR), a series of steamships including the first purpose-built...
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    The Great Western Railway (GWR) was incorporated by an act of Parliament in 1835 and nationalised on 1 January 1948. During this time it amalgamated with...
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  • Western Railway may refer to: Western Railway (Austria) Hanoverian Western Railway, Germany Western Railway zone, on Indian Railways Württemberg Western...
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  • The Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway was a railway company intended to link Cheltenham, Gloucester and Swindon, in England. It was authorised...
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