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Wessex Main Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Wessex Main Line is the railway line from Bristol Temple Meads to Southampton. Great Western Main Line diverges to Chippenham, Swindon and London Paddington  Gloucester-Newport Line   Exeter-Paignton "Riviera" Line   Wessex Main Line   West of England Main Line    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wessex_Main_Line   (183 words)

Great Western Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The undaunted GWR pressed ahead into the West Midlands, in hard-fought competition with the London and North Western Railway. The Great Western Railway originated from the desire of Bristol merchants to maintain the position of their port as the second port in the country and the chief one for American trade. Though this appeared to be a great coup for the GWR, the coal traffic declined significantly as the use of coal as a naval fuel declined, and within a decade the GWR was itself the largest single user of Welsh coal. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Western_Railway   (1440 words)

GALWAY - LoveToKnow Article on GALWAY GALWAY, a seaport, parliamentary borough and the county town of county Galway, Ireland, on the north shoreof Galway Bay, and on the main line of the Midland Great Western railway. The manufacture of kelp, formerly a great source of profit on the western shores, is still carried on to some extent. The western mountains, broken by deep landlocked and island-sheltered bays, as well as by the innumerable small Ioughs of the Connemara districts, afford scenes varying from gentle slopes occasionally well wooded along the waters edge to wild, bare moorlands among the heights, while the summits are usually bold and rocky cones. 37.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GA/GALWAY.htm   (4343 words)

Encyclopedia: History of rail transport in Great Britain Highland Railway (1865) Main line northwards from Perth to Inverness with branches to Kyle of Lochalsh, Wick and Thurso. Great Western Railway (GWR): the GWR was incorporated in 1835 to construct a railway, operated on the broad gauge of 7 ft 0.25 in (2140 mm), between Bristol and London. Great Eastern Railway(GER): the GER was an amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway and the Northern and Eastern Railway, and as its name suggests served the eastern counties of England: Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-rail-transport-in-Great-Britain   (10167 words)

WILTSHIRE - LoveToKnow Article on WILTSHIRE The chief branch line is that between Salisbury and Westbury on the Great Western. The county is in the western circuit, and assizes are held at Salisbury and Devizes. There is no great sheet of water, but the reservoir near Swindon, and the lakes of Longleat, Stourton and Foothill in the south-west of Earl Stoke near Westbury, and of Bowood, Corsham and Seagry near Chippenham, deserve mention for the beauty of their scenery. 97.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WILTSHIRE.htm   (4948 words)

GWR GWR The Badminton Line: A Portrait of a Railway, AS, 1988, pp231. The Greatness of the Great Western, IA, 1984, pp144. Parr H W The Great Western in Dean: A History of the Railways of the Forest of Dean: Part 2, DandC, 1965, pp168 with a colour frontis and a folding map in the rear. www.hometown.aol.com /gbsteven/gwr.htm   (1488 words)

The Story of the G.W.R. The Great Western, which did not want a break in their system at Gloucester, was also eager to buy up the two independent railways; but the Midland outbid them and the broad gauge suffered a severe reverse. The effect of the grouping of the Great Western's mileage was to increase it by 560 geographical miles, and by 3,365 miles of single track, sidings included, as the system already covered very thoroughly the country between the London-Penzance line on the south and the London-Birmingham-Chester route in the north. When the war was finished, the railways, the lines, the rolling-stock and plant which had been requisitioned by the Government were handed back to their owners, and a measure of compensation presented for the loss they had inevitably sustained. mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r010.html   (7978 words)

Transport Blog Glossary: Western Main Line The Western Main Line is the main line from London Paddington to Bristol. It was originally built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and until nationalisation in 1948 was owned by the Great Western Railway. www.transportblog.com /glossary/archives/003710.html   (33 words)

First Great Western Link - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia First Great Western Link shares a management team with First Great Western, a separately franchised train operating company that runs inter-city services on Great Western Main Line and associated lines. The company also used to operate services to Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon, but these are now operated by Chiltern Railways and the First Great Western Link route has been curtailed at Banbury. Eurostar - First Great Western - First TransPennine Express - GNER - Hull Trains - Midland Mainline - one - Virgin Trains en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Great_Western_Link   (255 words)

BALLINASLOE - Online Information article about BALLINASLOE MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. demesne of which the great fair extends from the town. The town is widely celebrated for its great See also: encyclopedia.jrank.org /BAI_BAR/BALLINASLOE.html   (242 words)

SWANSEA - LoveToKnow Article on SWANSEA The Great Western main line has a junction within the borough at Landore, whence a branch runs into a more central part of the town. All these lines approach the town from the north and east through an unattractive industrial district, but the central Wales branch of the London and North-Western railway from Craven Arms in entering it on the west passes through some beautiful woodlands and then skirts the bay, having parallel to it for the last 3 m. Harbour and Commerce.Swansea owes its commercial prosperity to its great natural advantages as a harbour and its situation within the South Wales coal basin, for the anthracite portion of which it is the natural port of shipment. 15.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SW/SWANSEA.htm   (4194 words)

Definition of South Western Main Line The South Western Main Line is the railway line from London Waterloo to Weymouth. Electrification as far as Weymouth was completed in 1988, to coincide with the introduction of the new Class 442 'Wessex Electric' trains. The line was electrified to Bournemouth in 1967, using the 750V DC third-rail system. www.wordiq.com /definition/South_Western_Main_Line   (204 words)

Great Western steam locomotives - 'Castle' class index But the 'Kings' suffered from restricted route availability because of their weight, and the 'Castles' remained the most useful Great Western express passenger engines. On the 4-6-2 Pacific theme, the Great Western's one and only attempt, The Great Bear of 1908, was not technically a failure, but its weight reduced route availability to such an extent that gave little scope for operational research on a one-off locomotive. The Great Western panache was provided by restoration for the first time after World War I of the copper-capped chimney and polished brass safety-valve cover. www.greatwestern.org.uk /m_in_cas.htm   (894 words)

Project South Asia It is also a great centre of business, and it is the main market for trade between Calcutta or Bombay on the one hand, and Rajputana on the other. Dharwar is the centre of a great cotton-growing district. A great part of Sind is therefore little better than a flat, sandy desert, the only cultivation being along the banks of the Indus, where canals are dug to carry the water of the river, when in flood, on to the land. www.mssu.edu /projectsouthasia/GEOGRAPHY/SecondaryDocs/NewGeography.htm   (18942 words)

Great Western Railway Main Index However, problems were encountered at towns such as Gloucester where the Great Western provided its broad gauge track from the south of the town met the Gloucester and Birmingham standard gauge track from the north. Therefore in May 1878, the Great Western began its own mining operations in Blaenavon, Wales. It was on the 'Great Eastern' that Brunel suffered a heart attack and died on the 15th of September. www.greatwestern.org.uk /m_in_gwr.htm   (1020 words)

LOX Report Surface access Pleiade On the Great Western Main Line, the Didcot east grade separated junction and new stations at Grove [note 3] and the proposed urban expansion of Swindon are assumed. A inter-main line shuttle service linking the existing radial main line network between London and Scotland, the Midlands and the North of England [see figure 3]. A LOX-Heathrow Express using the existing GWML with a new dedicated line to Heathrow Terminal 5 using a grade separated junction to the east of Langley. www.pleiade.org /loxreport03.html   (477 words)

Discover Reading, England The main route is the Great Western Main Line, which runs west from London's Paddington station before splitting in Reading with lines serving the West Country and Bristol, Bath and South Wales. Its main attractions are the mediaeval abbey ruins, the rivers Thames and Kennet, the surrounding Thames Valley countryside, a major shopping center, restaurant and pubs. Secondary lines connect Reading with London's Waterloo station, Guildford, Gatwick Airport, Birmingham, Basingstoke, Southampton and the South Coast. www.magicaljourneys.com /England/england-discover-southeast-reading.html   (1505 words)

Urban Transport Technology - Heathrow Express High-speed Airport Rail Link, London, United Kingdom For the first 12 miles, the route follows the Great Western Mainline to Airport Junction, near Hayes. The main line station at Paddington is currently served by four London Underground lines (District, Circle, Metropolitan and Bakerloo). BAA has signed a 25-year agreement with Railtrack for the use of the 12-mile main line stretch from Paddington to Airport Junction near Hayes. www.urbantransport-technology.com /projects/heathrow   (703 words)

Shattering the Silences: THE CULTURE WARS AND THE GREAT CONVERSATION The great sin of the Great Books, it seems, was the insistence of Hutchins and his followers that in America everyone should have the kind of education reserved in more formally hierarchical societies for the offspring of the ruling class. One of the things that made other forms of education impracticable, Hutchins noted, was that there were not many people in American universities qualified to teach the great books of the East. Alan Filreis, an English professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has come up with what are in retrospect hilarious documents -- scary at the time -- from the secret files of the Commie-chasers infiltrating Great Books discussion groups. www.pbs.org /shattering/culture.html   (1349 words)

11642-8.txt The great gateway of the castle still stands, and in Southover, the suburb of Lewes, are the remains of the once large and wealthy Priory of St. Pancras. In 1762 William Cobbett, one of the great writers and reformers of the eighteenth century, was born at Farnham, in Surrey. The great square battlemented tower, through which one has just passed, is pierced with leaded windows, and its weather-beaten old walls are relieved by all sorts of creepers, which have been allowed to adorn without destroying the rich detail of stone and half-timber work. www.gutenberg.net /1/1/6/4/11642/11642-8.txt   (19820 words)

rinks-great-lakes.txt In-line rentals available The Navy Pier is a large pier jutting into Lake Michigan on the downtown Chicago lakefront, just north of Grant Park, that is being turned into a recreational/tourist area. Before that though it was a theater, so seating is great there, exiting the floor is not a problem because half of one side is totally open and there are bleachers right on the floor on the other side. The late Saturday night session is a great session for 18 and over rockin to the oldies with a live DJ, while the earlier session is for all ages. www.netaxs.com /people/grr/Skate/FAQs/rinks-great-lakes.txt   (12841 words)

Dawlish The Great Western Main Line runs along the Dawlish seafront Dawlish is a town on the south coast of Devon, England, 10 miles from the County town of Exeter, with a population of around 13,000 people. www.worldhistory.com /wiki/D/Dawlish.htm   (232 words)

Articles - Cotswolds The M4 motorway and Great Western Main Line cross the area in the south as do the A40 road and Cotswold Line in the north. The M5 motorway and Cross Country rail line run north - south close to the western boundary of the area. Cheltenham is a hub for National Express coach services. www.foreverc.com /articles/Cotswolds   (418 words)

Find in a Library: Western Pacific Railway main line along south shore of Great Salt Lake UT Western Pacific Railway main line along south shore of Great Salt Lake UT Find in a Library: Western Pacific Railway main line along south shore of Great Salt Lake UT Search: WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/403f2eeab4fe3f55a19afeb4da09e526.html   (80 words)

R1 KX-Don, R2 Pad-Bri, R3 Eus-Cre Very high speed running from Paddington along the Great Western main line. Bit of a crawl out of the Cross but there's plenty of high speed (up to 125mph) running on the electrified east coast main line despite the nasty climbs to Potters Bar and Stoke summit. Bit trickier after Wooton Bassett Jc as gradients, speed restrictions and station stops begin to intrude. ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/traingames/Route2.htm   (218 words)

Looe At Liskeard, the line connects with the main Plymouth-Penzance Great Western Main Line. The town has a railway station, which is the terminus of the Looe Valley branch line to Liskeard. Before the Great Reform Act of 1832, West Looe and East Looe both returned two MPs each to Westminster despite their tiny populations, becoming renowned as archetypal rotten boroughs. www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/Looe.htm   (247 words)

SRA - Great Western Main Line Route Utilisation Strategy: Consultation Great Western Main Line Route Utilisation Strategy: Consultation SRA - Great Western Main Line Route Utilisation Strategy: Consultation Use these keywords to relate content items to other content items.: www.sra.gov.uk /pubs2/consult_new/publication.2005-01-11.8496349955   (37 words)

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