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The GWML is presently a part of the national rail system managed by Network Rail while the majority of passenger services upon it are provided by the current Great Western Railway franchise. The GWML was built by the original Great Western Railway company between 1838 and 1841, as a dual track line in the 7 ft ( 2,134 mm ) broad gauge .
The line to Basingstoke had originally been built by the Berks and Hants Railway as a broad-gauge route in an attempt to keep the standard gauge of the LSWR out of Great Western territory but, in 1857, the GWR and LSWR opened a shared line to Weymouth on the south coast, the GWR route being via Chippenham and a route initially started by the ...
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 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 whole company was rebranded Great Western Railway (GWR) on 20 September 2015, [28] with the introduction of a green livery in recognition of the former Great Western Railway which existed between 1835 and 1947. [29] [30] The new livery was introduced when HST interiors were refurbished, and on sleeper carriages and Class 57/6 locomotives. [31]
Map of Truro and Newquay Railway. The Great Western Railway (GWR) had secured dominance in south and west Cornwall from its purchase of the Cornwall Railway in 1889; it already had control of the West Cornwall Railway and therefore had a main line from London through Plymouth to Penzance, with a number of branches.
The Ebbw Valley Railway is a branch line of the Great Western Main Line. [57] Predominantly single track, but with an 10 miles (16 km) double track section between Risca and Aberbeeg, [4] the line runs 19 miles (31 km) between Ebbw Vale Town station, in the northeast of the mountainous South Wales valleys, and the South Wales Main Line.
In 1923 the main line railways were "grouped" into one or other of four new large railway companies; the Great Central Railway was a constituent of the new London and North Eastern Railway; the Great Western Railway was restructured with the addition of some South Wales concerns, but the new company retained the Great Western Railway name.