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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 other main lines such as those from Reading to Penzance and Swindon to Swansea.
Gatehampton Railway Bridge, otherwise referred to as Gatehampton Viaduct, [2] is a railway bridge carrying the Great Western Main Line over the River Thames in Lower Basildon, Berkshire, England. It takes the line between the stations at Goring and Streatley and Pangbourne, and crosses the Thames on the reach between Whitchurch Lock and Goring ...
Construction of the Crossrail Portal at Royal Oak, the Great Western Main Line in the right, July 2011. Crossrail is a major rail scheme, under construction since 2009, to provide a new east–west railway connection under Central London. The western portion of the line will connect with the Great Western Main Line to the west of Paddington.
Carries Great Western Main Line across the River Avon west into Bath Spa station. Built by Brunel. St James' Viaduct: Bath, Somerset: 1840: Stone arches, steel girders over roads. II* Carries Great Western Main Line from the Skew Bridge west towards Bristol. Built by Brunel. St. Julian's railway bridge: Newport, Wales: 1874
The bridge after electrification gantries were added. The Crossrail development, which created the Elizabeth line, saw the long-delayed overhead electrification of the Great Western line between Paddington and Reading. At one stage, to accommodate construction activity in the area, it had been planned for a temporary construction depot to be ...
Great Western Railway heritage sites are those places where stations, bridges and other infrastructure built by the Great Western Railway and its constituent railways can still be found. These may be heritage railways , museums, operational railway stations , or isolated listed structures .
Moulsford Railway Bridge, also known locally as "Four Arches" bridge, [2] is a pair of parallel bridges located a little to the north of Moulsford and South Stoke in Oxfordshire, UK. It carries the Great Western Main Line from Paddington, London to Wales and the West across the River Thames.
The contract for building the bridge went to William Ranger in March 1836, with work beginning that April. The stone for the bridge was intended to be taken from the cutting of the nearby No. 1 Tunnel. Ranger fell behind schedule, and by 1838, when shareholders had intended the line to be open, Great Western Railway declared his work ...