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	The Story of the G.W.R.
		The railway was, in fact, difficult to construct throughout because the level part along the coast had to be laid between the sea and the cliffs.
		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.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r010.html (8069 words)

	Railway Correspondence & Travel Society
		The locomotives of the London and South Western Railway.
		Raising steam on the LMS: the evolution of LMS locomotive boilers.
		Cormack, J.R.H. and Stevenson, J.L. Highland Railway locomotives.
	www.steamindex.com /library/rcts.htm (1809 words)

	Great Western Railway - UK Railways - A Wikia wiki
		Various other railways were built in the area to connect with the GWR: The Bristol and Exeter Railway reached Exeter by 1844, The Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway linked Swindon to Gloucester and Cheltenham in 1845, and the Bristol and Gloucester Railway brought the broad gauge to Gloucester in 1844.
		Two notable locomotives were 111 The Great Bear, the first 4-6-2 locomotive in the United Kingdom and 3717 City of Truro arguably the first locomotive to be recorded at a speed of 100mph in 1904.
		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.
	ukrailways.wikia.com /wiki/GWR (1112 words)

	GWR
		The Great Western's doomed attempt to survive nationalization, the impact of Beeching, the diesel-hydraulics and the HST era.
		Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, Jarrold, 1979, pp32, 68 illustrations (51 colour) and a map.
		Paar 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.members.aol.com /gbsteven/gwr.htm (2225 words)

	Great Western Railway Locomotives
		The Great Western Railway rostered a fleet of 9 steam locomotives over the years; 0-6-0's 101 and 102, 2-8-0's #1,2, 51, 52, 60 and 75 and a single 2-10-8, #90.
		Great Western locomotives #1,2 and 52 were in Longmont in 1952, awaiting shipment to Pueblo where they were scrapped by CFandI Steel.
		Rohrer's death in 1999, the locomotive was sold to the Heber Valley Railroad in Utah.
	www.boulderrail.org /history/gwr/locomotives.html (352 words)

	Great Western locomotive types
		It was also handicapped by the great length of the boiler barrel, as in the absence of a combustion chamber the tubes were unduly long in relation to their diameter and so steaming was not as free as it should have been.
		Otway, Francis O.J. The Great Western and Westinghouse brakes.
		Leech, K.H. The "Castles" of the Great Western Railway.
	www.steamindex.com /locotype/gwrloco.htm (11967 words)

	The Great Western Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Great Western Railway was built between 1901 and 1906 to haul sugar beets from the fields to the factories of the Great Western Sugar Company.
		Great Western caboose 01004 was shot in Longmont in August of 1952.
		Its origin unknown, the caboose was acquired by the Great Western in 1917, and scrapped in the mid 1950's.
	www.boulderrail.org /history/gwr/gwr.html (184 words)

	Great Western Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The South Wales Railway, terminating at Neyland, opened in 1850 and was connected to the GWR via Brunel's ungainly Wye bridge in 1852.
		Two notable locomotives were 111 The Great Bear, the first 4-6-2 locomotive in the United Kingdom and 3440 City of Truro, the first locomotive to be recorded at a speed of 100 mph (160 km/h) in 1904 (although this speed has never been formally confirmed).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Western_Railway (1918 words)

	The Great Western Archive - Main Index
		The Great Western Railway system used 1,943 signal and crossing boxes and ground frames to allow a safe passage of its services.
		The Great Western railcars were a ground-breaking achievement for a company with its roots set firmly in the steam locomotive.
		Images of British Railways, GWR, LMS, LNER and Southern steam and diesel locomotives and coaches.
	www.greatwestern.org.uk (375 words)

	Great Western Railway Main Index
		Prior to this time, in 1837, the Great Western also launched their first ship, appropriately named 'Great Western', as Bristol had direct access to the Atlantic and America.
		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.
		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)

	Irondale, Bancroft & Ottawa
		It is presumed to have been built in 1855 by Birkenhead of England for the Great Western or the Grand Trunk Railway and sold to the IBandO in 1886.
		GTR locomotive records in the Andrew Merrilees collection, however, don't indicate whether it was one of these locomotives that was sold to the IBandO - possibly through a scrap dealer.
		The Grand Trunk locomotive records in the Merrilees collection at the National Archives of Canada indicate that the locomotive was built in September 1873 by Manchester Locomotive Company, Builder #596 for the Grand Trunk Railway as their #155.
	www.railwaybob.com /IBO/IBOLocos.html (423 words)

	Great Western
		The Great Western Railway was the first to install electric telegraph alongside its line.
		By 1844 the Great Western Railway had opened a new line from Bristol to Exeter and from Bristol to Gloucester where it met the standard gauge of the Birmingham and Gloucester line.
		One of the consequences of using the broad gauge was that Great Western locomotives could not use Euston Station and Brunel had to build its own station at Paddington.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RAgreat.htm (356 words)

	Brunel 200: Great Western Railway
		Brunel was involved in all aspects of the design of the station at Bristol Temple Meads, one of the oldest surviving railway terminuses in the world, although it has not been used as such since 1965.
		With carriages and locomotives designed by Daniel Gooch to Brunel’s specifications, the broad gauge system was more comfortable and allowed for faster travel than the narrower gauge.
		Through his work on the railway, Brunel contributed to a process that would come to physically unify the country, conquer distances, widen access to public transport, and lead to the general adoption of Greenwich Meantime.
	www.brunel200.com /great_western_railway.htm (1110 words)

	Locomotives of the Great Western Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Western Railway had an uninterrupted life of over a century to develop its locomotive designs as it was barely affected by the Grouping of 1923.
		Nine locomotives were transferred from the Cornwall Mineral Railway on 1 July 1877, and one further one on 1 July 1896.
		The 85 broad gauge locomotives added to the Great Western Railway fleet on 1 February 1876 included not just the South Devon Railway locomotives but also the 19 owned by the Cornwall Railway and 8 from the West Cornwall Railway, which had all operated in a common pool since 1866.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Locomotives_of_the_Great_Western_Railway (1558 words)

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		The centenary of the take-over of the Pembroke and Tenby Railway by the Great Western Railway occurs on 1st July 1996 when the former company was leased to the latter, 12 months later, the Great Western absorbed the little company through an Act of Amalgamation.
		When the stock was inspected by the Great Western Railway Inspector, Ludgate, he valued MILFORD at £600, and on the Great Western taking over the company, numbered her 1360.
		It also appears that she was the only locomotive to stray far from her home territory by being used on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway which the GWR were operating on behalf of that company.
	members.lycos.co.uk /Graham_Davies/Railways/LocosPandTR.html (2273 words)

	Great Western Railway 4-6-0 4979 "Wootton Hall"
		As befits a jack-of-all-trades, it had a varied career with the Great Western and British Railways, serving in the West Country, the Midlands, South Wales, London and Oxford.
		Great Western Railway Chief Mechanical Engineer Charles Collett produced the "Hall" class as a development of the earlier "Saint" class of his predecessor George Jackson Churchward.
		The "Halls" were the standard mixed-traffic locomotive on the Great Western, equally at home with express passenger trains and lengthy, heavy goods workings.
	www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk /other4979.htm (660 words)

	The Great Western Railway Iron Duke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The locomotive had a 4-2-2 wheel configuration and was fitted with eight foot diameter driving wheels.
		Have a thought for the crew of this locomotive when it was racing through the English countryside, on a wet day, without any protection from the weather.
		Locomotives are good subjects for models because there are plenty of working parts.
	www.dalefield.com /nzfmm/magazine/irondukeAug01.html (821 words)

	Locomotives of the Past
		The engine is of the 0-4-2 type, and was designed in 1882 by William Stroudley, Locomotive Superintendent of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.
		The express is hauled by one of Patrick Stirling's famous "singles." These locomotives, with a single pair of 8 ft. driving wheels, were among the fastest of their time.
		The 2-4-0 locomotives of the type shown were designed by the Midland Railway's locomotive superintendent, Matthew Kirtley.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r021.html (382 words)

	Newcomen Society - Brunel's railway bridge, Maidenhead, UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This famous railway bridge over the Thames at Maidenhead with its elegant brick arches broke new ground in structural engineering.
		As a conduit for the steam locomotives of the Great Western Railway, the bridge also can be seen as a symbol of the Industrial Revolution.
		It was constructed in the 1770s and carried the toll road at a crossing point which had been in use since the early stone age.
	www.newcomen.com /mhead.htm (167 words)

	THE RAILWAY WORKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Before 1948, the railway system in the UK consisted of four big companies, each controlling its own geographical area, and a main line from there into London.
		I have seen the description of Swindon as simply a "railway junction", which is a great injustice.
		Even neutral railway enthusiasts would find it difficult to argue with the fact that Swindon was the home of the finest railway workshops in the world - the main workshops of the world's finest railway - The Great Western Railway.
	home.san.rr.com /roundabout/railway.htm (434 words)

	Railways, OO Steam Locomotives , OO Steam Locos GWR Origin \| Antics Online
		Great Western Railway locomotives were generally very successful and many remained in service almost untouched through the years from nationalisation in 1947 until the end of steam traction.
		The Great Western Heavy Freight returns with this weathered release from Hornby in BR fl livery with later style crest.
		A classic Great Western engine, the 45xx class 2-6-2T were small but powerful locomotives able to run fast in either direction.
	www.railway-models.co.uk /750_1.html (2954 words)

	STEAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		STEAM - Museum of the Great Western Railway is housed in a beautifully restored Grade II railway building in the heart of the former Swindon railway works.
		The Museum tells the story of the men and women who built, operated and travelled on the Great Western Railway - 'God’s Wonderful Railway' - a railway network that, through the pioneering vision and genius of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, was regarded as the most advanced in the world.
		Stepping into the Museum, visitors are taken into the world of the railway worker at Swindon, passing through a series of reconstructions, carefully assembled using original equipment, supported by video and interactive displays.
	www.steam-museum.org.uk (312 words)

	GWR Modelling: Avoiding the Cliché
		The locomotive allocations registers for the last century are (with about three exceptions) in the Public Record Office.
		If you are interested in 4-wheelers, join the Great Western Study Group, (recommended anyway) and get hold of "Pannier" No.12 and No.14, which have details on these coaches.
		Also consider books on other railway companies wagons and Private Owner wagons; and if there are through passenger trains from other companies, then look for books on the appropriate company's coaching stock.
	www.gwr.org.uk /nolitt.html (760 words)

	Midland & South Western Junction Railway
		Gloucestershire Railways in the Twenties, by Humphrey Household (Alan Sutton, 1985).
		Railways of the Cotswolds, by Colin Maggs (Peter Nicholson, 1981).
		Great Western Reflections by Philip Hopkins (Wild Swan Publications, 1995).
	www.swindonsotherrailway.co.uk /art.html (2126 words)

	WSR :: West Somerset Railway :: Weathervanes
		Harry Kirkland is a volunteer at Bishops Lydeard, and a veteran of the footplate during the last few years of steam in the local area.
		He also has another interesting sideline - constructing made-to-order hand-made weathervanes in the shape of steam locomotives, mostly from the Great Western Railway.
		Harry often exhibits a few of the designs at the Minehead end of platform 2 at Bishops Lydeard Station, and one can always be viewed further along the platform on the roof of the Station Shop.
	www.wsr.org.uk /vanes.htm (153 words)

	The Malta Railway
		There is no longer a Railway in Malta, it closed down in 1931 mainly due to the introduction of Trams and Motor Buses, but it is still possible to find visible traces of the railway here and there.
		The Malta Railway opened in 1883 and ran from Valletta to Notabile close to Rabat and Mdina.
		There is also a set of pages of The Malta Railway as seen on old postcard views and a list of the Steam Locomotives.
	website.lineone.net /~alan.c.edwards/mtrail.html (398 words)

	Computerised Railway Magazine Index main page
		If you are interested in 16mm Narrow Gauge Railway Modelling look here for lots of URLs to other websites, manufacturers, and just some sites of interest.
		Locomotives At The Grouping Part 5 The Great Western Railway
		Locomotives Of The Great Western Railway Part 12 Chronological And Statistical Survey
	www.andibradley.com /crmi/booksgwr_hp.php (253 words)

	YOUR DICTIONARY - Castles and Kings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Developed in the 1920s, the two classes "set a standard for British express locomotives by which all others came to be judged." ("The National Railway Collection", p.68.)
		"Castle" class locomotives were introduced in 1923, a development of the 1906 "Star" class, with larger boiler and cylinders.
		This engine is now in the Great Western Railway Museum in Swindon.
	website.lineone.net /~ssleightholm/dict/glossary/castles.htm (167 words)

	Modellers of the Great Western Railway
		This ring is for anyone who is a modeller with a site about modelling the Great Western Railway, or makes/sells products that are specifically for making these models.
		There is information about my current projects, my collection of railway books, and other more general information about myself.
		A text only site with a small amount of graphics describing my model railway which is set in mid Wales between 1945 and 1947.
	o.webring.com /hub?ring=modellersofthegr (335 words)

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