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This is a route-map template for the Great Western Main Line, a UK railway.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
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 .
First Great Western previously leased 14 Class 180 Adelante units, operating on the Great Western Main Line, but following technical issues they were transferred elsewhere. [ 106 ] [ 107 ] In 2012, five units were returned to First Great Western to operate weekday services on the Cotswold Line , allowing class 165 and 166 units to be ...
Note: Per consensus and convention, most route-map templates are used in a single article in order to separate their complex and fragile syntax from normal article wikitext. See these discussions , for more information. This map is of the Bristol area railways. It includes: The Great Western Main Line from Saltford to Bristol Temple Meads.
A GWR seat at Yatton The pedestrian crossing at Cockwood Steps, on the South Devon Main Line, retains a gate with GWR spear-type railings The GWR's memory is kept alive by several museums such as STEAM – the museum of the GWR (in the old Swindon railway works ), and the Didcot Railway Centre , where there is an operating broad-gauge train.
The GWR's cut-off lines to the west of England (shown in red). The Great Western Railway first ran trains from London to Plymouth in 1848. These trains ran via Bristol.The London and South Western Railway completed the rival West of England line in 1860, which provided a more direct route from London to Exeter.
The current station is on the site of the Great Western Railway line that opened to Banbury in 1850. The original station's overall roof survived until 1953, five years before a rebuild in 1958. The rebuilding of the station was delayed due to the Second World War [ 3 ] and could have been based on the GWR's new station at Leamington Spa ...
Map of the Badminton line. On 30 June 1841 the Great Western Railway company opened its first main line between London and Bristol. [note 1] [note 2] [1] [2] By this means the capital and one of the most important seaports were connected by a trunk railway line. The line was well laid out, passing through Reading and Bath.