https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLsgtfQ_G1s
A compilation of Great Western locomotives that we have filmed from 2011 to 2020. There are 98 scenes featuring 38 locomotives across 11 preserved railways w

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotives_of_the_Great_Western_Railway
This railway was of 1' 11½" gauge and was taken over on 13 April 1883. It was later converted to standard gauge as the extension of the new Bala & Festiniog Railway after purchase by the Great Western Railway . Two locomotives were taken over, both being built by Manning Wardle . 1 Manning Wardle Wks No 259, 0-4-2ST, built 1868.

http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/index-st.htm
Steam locomotive introduction. T he Great Western Railway, known to GWR enthusiasts as God's Wonderful Railway, was Britain's oldest railway company until nationalisation in 1948. Created in 1835, the GWR began with a 7 feet 0ź inch broad gauge line from Bristol to London and grew into a network covering the South West, the Midlands and Wales.

http://everythinggwr.com/photo-collections/
The Mike Morant Collection is made up of 6 galleries of GWR/WR interest: GWR 4-6-0s; a particularly interesting section on GWR 4-4-0s; some nice Panniers, an assorted variety of other tank engines and some good views of GWR structures and artefacts. Nick Baxter's album of the Locomotives of the South Wales railway companies absorbed by the GWR.

https://www.steam-museum.org.uk/collections/picture-library/
Picture Library. STEAM Museum of the GWR holds thousands of images relating to the Great Western Railway and British Railways (Western Region). These images cover a wide range of subjects including industrial engineering and social history, country views and people, as well as locomotives, trains and rolling stock. A large number of these

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_6800_Class
Water cap. The Great Western Railway (GWR) 6800 Class or Grange Class was a mixed-traffic class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive, built to replace the GWR 4300 Class 2-6-0. There were 80 in the class, all built at the Swindon works, using some reconditioned parts from withdrawn 4300 Class locomotives.

https://www.railwaywondersoftheworld.com/gwr.html
The test runs of the first locomotives of the Great Western averaged between twenty-eight and thirty-three and a half miles an hour. ... Taunton and Exeter. The Great Western Railway claims the record for the highest speed ever attained by a steam train in Great Britain, i.e. 102.3 miles an hour in 1904, by a Plymouth to London mails special

https://britishheritage.com/feature/great-western-railway-display
About 20 miles east of Swindon, the Didcot Railway Centre is a rather grittier visit. Home of the Great Western Society, the center is located in the huge rail yards of Didcot Parkway Station on the GWR mainline west. While Swindon built the steam locomotives, at a midpoint between London and the West, Didcot was perfectly positioned to become

https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/icons-of-the-gwr-featuring-38-locos.1419249/
Icons of the GWR ! Featuring 38 Locos | National Preservation ... [MEDIA]

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Great_Western_Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) is a British railway company linking South West England, the West Country and South Wales with London. Note A series of articles about The Great Western Railway entitled One Hundred Years of British Railways appeared in 'The Engineer' in 1924: . No I Great Western Railway - The Engineer 1924/10/03; No II Great Western Railway - The Engineer 1924/10/10

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_2900_Class
The Great Western Railway 2900 Class or Saint Class, which was built by the Great Western Railway's Swindon Works, incorporated several series of 2-cylinder passenger steam locomotives designed by George Jackson Churchward and built between 1902 and 1913 with differences in the dimensions. The majority of these were built as 4-6-0 locomotives; but thirteen examples were built as 4-4-2 (but

https://www.locomotionmodels.com/railway-icons
Highland Railway 'Jones Goods' No.109. NER Class H No.898. LNER 'U1' S&DR CENTENARY CAVALCADE GREY NO.2395. N-Gauge Class 66 No.66788 'Locomotion 15'. WD Austerity 2-10-0. Class 60 No.60098 'Charles Francis Brush'. N-Gauge Dynomometer Car. Class 56 BR Blue 'Richard Trevethick' No.56037. Locomotion Models and Rails of Sheffield have previously

http://www.gwr.org.uk/liveries.html
Coach liveries. Details and illustrations of the main GWR coach liveries from c 1880-1947, plus notes on the BR (W) livery for loco-hauled stock. GWR 1880-1908 coach livery. GWR 1908-1912 coach livery. GWR 1912-1922 coach livery. GWR 1922-1927 coach livery. GWR 1927-1934 coach livery. GWR 1934-1942 coach livery.

https://www.gwr.com/about-gwr/our-named-trains
About GWR. Our named Intercity Express Trains. Our named Intercity Express Trains. The Great Western Railway, and the communities around it, have been shaped by many inspirational individuals. Our new fleet of Intercity Express Trains celebrate these people and their legacies by bearing their names. Each train will have its own identity, with

https://railphotoprints.uk/f438123885
Home»ALL PHOTOGRAPHS»BRITISH RAILWAYS»UK Steam Locomotives» GWR and Western Region Steam. Galleries 12. Collections 0. Groups 0. Pre 1948 (Nationalisation) Visitors 4030. 174 photos Created 31-Mar-23. Modified 31-Mar-23. 1948 - 1967 Locos 1 - 999 Visitors 1712. 0 photos Created 6-Apr-22. Modified 6-Apr-22.

https://www.gwr.com/stations-and-destinations/travel-inspiration/blogs/history-of-the-railways
Reading railway station was first a single-sided station and was originally the last stop on the Great Western Railway mainline when it opened in 1840. Change has been big, with the Queen twice opening important upgrades. The first was a £20million redevelopment in 1989, with the second £897million worth of changes that brought five new

https://www.locomotionmodels.com/railway-icons~2
Price. £199.99. Pre-Order. The first release we are producing as part of the Railway Icons brand is the Prototype High Speed power car, No.41001 (later 43001), which is part of the National Collection. This Prototype HSDT power car has been produced exclusively for Railway Icons by Bachmann Europe Plc. Add to Basket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_4200_Class_4277
Service. No. 4277 was built at the GWR's Swindon Works in 1920, on Lot No. 213, Works No. 2857. [1] It was painted in unlined green livery with "Great Western" on the tank sides. From 1934 a round GWR logo replaced the lettering, and this in turn was replaced in 1942 by the letters "G W R". In 1948 the locomotive passed into British Railways

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/blogs/entry/17008-gwr-19th-century-carriage-development/
MikeOxon's Pre-Grouping Blog. GWR 19th Century Carriage Development. Whereas there are 'umpteen books about the development of the steam locomotive, relatively little has been written about early railway carriages. One of my aims in making models of some earlier carriages was to hep me visualise the changes that took place in the mid-19th century.

https://gwrarchive.org/index.php
Class Ab 4-6-2 number 786, rebuilt from a Wab 4-6-4T in 1947, shunts at Kaiapoi on the South Island Main Trunk line in New Zealand on 29/04/1967. Photo Gerry Dixon. The Restoration and Archiving Trust maintains an archive of railway photographs from around the world and operates museum facilities on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway (GWR)

https://www.locomotionmodels.com/railway-icons/gwr-q13-inspection-saloon/gwr-q13-inspection-saloon-full-balance-payment
We are pleased to present the latest addition to the Railway Icons range - the GWR Q13 Inspection Saloon No.W80974W produced by Dapol and Rails of Sheffield. Quantity. Order Price. £149.95. Add to Basket. Whereas most Inspection Saloons were converted from older vehicles, the Q13 were purpose-built examples.

https://britishrailwaybooks.co.uk/books/tracklayouts/sectionblank.php
Routes Covered. Tony Cooke began publication of this renowned series of track layout diagrams of the old Great Western Railway and British Railways (Western Region) over 40 years ago. When the final nine parts which will complete the series are eventually issued, the the entire GWR and BR (WR) system will be covered, showing how the layout at

http://www.gwr.org.uk/liverieslococolour.html
GWR loco colours 1900-1947. The loco body colour adopted by Swindon from 1881 was based on a 'middle chrome green' pigment. It replaced various earlier shades of green, including the darker 'holly green'. Wolverhampton however continued to use a dark blue green shade until at least 1894. Whilst the basic colour pigment remained the same, what