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    Great Western Railway telegraphic codes were a commercial telegraph code used to shorten the telegraphic messages sent between the stations and offices...
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  • Australian railway telegraphic codes were devised to reduce the size of telegraphic messages, though some survived into the telephone era. They were used...
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    accidents Great Western Railway ships Great Western Railway telegraphic codes GWR locomotive numbering and classification List of 7-foot gauge railway locomotive...
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  • uppercase and lowercase characters. Commercial code (communications) Great Western Railway telegraphic codes Beauchamp, ch. 1 Bouchet, ch. 2 Burns, ch. 2...
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    robbery; is it true? Brevity code Australian railway telegraphic codes Great Western Railway telegraphic codes Telegraph code Telegraphese Kahn 1967, p. 838...
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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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    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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    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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  • Loriot (ship), a mid-19th-century American ship "Loriot", Great Western Railway telegraphic code for a machine truck Oriole, a family of birds known in French...
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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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    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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  • using say telegraphic codes. Great Western Railway telegraphic codes Australian railway telegraphic codes Railway block code Commercial code Words can...
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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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    From 1920, the cab side of Great Western Railway (GWR) steam locomotives bore a letter on a coloured disc, which enabled staff to quickly assess the capabilities...
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    The Great Western Railway's ships operated in connection with the company's trains to provide services to Ireland, the Channel Islands and France. Powers...
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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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    Telegraphy (redirect from Telegraphic)
    Wireless telegraphy is transmission of messages over radio with telegraphic codes. Contrary to the extensive definition used by Chappe, Morse argued...
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  • three-letter codes used to designate airports and used for bag tags. Station codes are similarly used on railways but are usually national, so the same code can...
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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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    a telegraphic method be adopted instead. This list includes notable accidents on railways that were later amalgamated with the Great Western Railway. Sonning...
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  • Engineer to the Great Western Railway Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1833-1837) Locomotive Superintendent Daniel Gooch (1837–1864) Joseph Armstrong (1864–1877)...
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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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  • Mogo, a local name for Ugali, a cornmeal mush Mogo, the Great Western Railway telegraphic code for a covered motor car wagon Isla Mogo Mogo, an island...
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    International code and the four unique Gerke codes into the local alphabet, hence Greek, Hebrew, Russian, and Ukrainian Morse codes. If more codes are needed...
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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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    Great Western Railway heritage sites are those places where stations, bridges and other infrastructure built by the Great Western Railway and its constituent...
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    Electrical telegraph (category Western (genre) staples and terminology)
    telegraphic encoding became fully automated. Early teletypewriters used the ITA-1 Baudot code, a five-bit code. This yielded only thirty-two codes, so...
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    Railway are the locomotives, carriages and wagons used on the Bodmin and Wenford Railway, a heritage railway in Cornwall, England. The Great Western Railway...
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  • ownership of the Great Western Railway in 1888, the canal became the responsibility of the British Transport Commission when the railways were nationalised...
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    The Great Western Railway War Memorial is a First World War memorial by Charles Sargeant Jagger and Thomas S. Tait. It stands on platform 1 at London...
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