The Llanelli riots of 1911 were a series of events precipitated by the National Railway Strike of 1911. Mass picketing action at Llanelli railway station...

Williams (born 1955), snooker referee Listed buildings in Llanelli Llanelli riots of 1911 Llanelly power station 1894–1913 Llanelly Urban District Council...

Box using CCTV. Llanelli railway station was the scene for the Llanelli Riots of 1911. The Llanelli Riots took place on 19 August 1911. Their immediate...

commission to examine the workings of the 1907 Conciliation Board. The strike also led to the Llanelli Riots of 1911, in which two people died in clashes...

painted earlier. It is now in the collection of the National Gallery, London. The painting gives an impression of great speed in a static painting, an attribute...

Schools - The Rebecca Riots in Rhayader The Rebecca Riots from the National Library of Wales on Gathering the Jewels Llanelli Community Heritage (several...

Paddington Station railway terminus of the Great Western in London. Frith had developed a reputation for producing crowd scenes of everyday life, including Ramsgate...

type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway with the water tanks carried on both sides of the boiler, in the manner of panniers...

diverse range of locomotives of mixed quality. In 1837, Brunel recruited Daniel Gooch and gave him the job of rectifying the heavy repair burden of the GWR's...

the Great Western Railway Llanelli railway strike In a footnote, MacDermot states In laying the rails an extra quarter of an inch was allowed on the...

withdrawn and scrapped in 1911. GWR locomotives had been designed to take advantage of high quality Welsh steam coal. Following the end of World War II, coal...

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...

Bristol) climbed the 1 in 75 of Filton Bank through what is now Bristol Parkway and then continued climbing the 1 in 300 of the Badminton Line to Badminton...

type of coach that was used by the Great Western Railway for push-pull trains powered by a steam locomotive. The distinguishing design feature of an autocoach...

came from small railways (mostly in South Wales) and from contractors. Some of them survived into British Railways ownership in 1948 and a few are preserved...

overall length of 87 miles (140 km), made up of two lengths of navigable river linked by a canal. The name is used to refer to the entire length of the navigation...

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...

1992 ISBN 0 85361 423 7 Michael Denman, Railways Around Llanelli: A History of the Railways of East Carmarthenshire. The Wider View, Huntingdon, 2000,...

after members of the British Royal Family, their success was short-lived due to the onset of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Taken out of service by British...

then the Bristol and Exeter Railway. As the GWR expanded, the destination of the train changed to Plymouth and briefly to Penzance. The name Flying Dutchman...

Swansea. The GWML is presently a part of the national rail system managed by Network Rail while the majority of passenger services upon it are provided...

south-west of England between Bridgwater and Taunton, opened in 1827 and linking the River Tone to the River Parrett. There were a number of abortive schemes...

The Gauge War (or Gauge Wars) was a figurative war of intense competition to control new territory, waged between expanding railway companies in Great...

1933, the Great Western Railway introduced the first of what was to become a successful series of diesel railcars, which survived in regular use into the...

station, Berkshire Yatton railway station, Somerset List of British heritage and private railways List of railway museums in the United Kingdom National Railway...

engine shed and locomotive stabling point. The founders and commercial backers of the Great Western Railway (GWR) supported Isambard Kingdom Brunel's scheme...

This is a list of the names of broad gauge railway locomotives built in the United Kingdom during the heyday of that gauge (which ended in that country...

Monday to Saturday in both directions. The Cornishman originates from the days of Brunel's broad gauge, first running in summer 1890 between London Paddington...

cartel of mine owners. What became known as the Tonypandy riots of 1910 and 1911 (sometimes collectively known as the Rhondda riots) were a series of violent...

To counter the critic of the Great Western Railway (GWR) actually standing for "The Great Way Round", the GWR started a series of straightening projects...