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West Coast Joint Stock (LNWR) 186 TPO: Wolverton: Dia No. 87 1883 York [192] 1975–7042 GNR: 948 Six-wheel full brake Doncaster: 1887 York [193] 1975–7044 ECJS: 82 Gangwayed Full Brake Doncaster: Dia No. 38 1908 Shildon [194] 1988–7008 LNWR: 275 Four-wheel Open Carriage Truck Wolverton: Dia No. 466 1908 York [195] 1988–7009 GWR: 2775 ...
Until 2017, GWR operated the vast majority of its long-distance services with a fleet of 58 InterCity 125 High Speed Train sets, [78] each consisting of eight Mark 3 coaches sandwiched between two Class 43 locomotives. GWR operated the largest InterCity 125 fleet, owning five sets outright; the rest were leased from Angel Trains and Porterbrook.
In 1935, excursion stock with open saloons instead of compartments was introduced, followed by the 26 "Super-Saloon"-scale Centenary stock for the Cornish Riviera Express. From 1936 onwards, all new GWR main line stock had large windows to each compartment and entry-exit via the corridor and end vestibules, but it had taken Collett six years to ...
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 rolling stock preserved on the West Somerset Railway is used to operate trains on the West Somerset Railway (WSR), a heritage railway in Somerset, England. There is a variety of preserved steam and diesel locomotives and diesel multiple units , passenger coaches and goods wagons.
Four-wheel composite built by Smith Wylie for the Monmouth Railway and numbered 2. Later GWR 484. Withdrawn in 1890 and now mounted on an old wagon chassis. [40] 225 GWR Autocoach: 1951 [41] 228 GWR Autocoach: 1951 [41] 233 GWR Autocoach: 1951 [42] 249 GWR Saloon 1894 A directors' saloon which was sometimes used in the Royal train. It includes ...
The rolling stock of the Bodmin and Wenford Railway are the locomotives, carriages and wagons used on the Bodmin and Wenford Railway, a heritage railway in Cornwall, England. The Great Western Railway (GWR) opened a branch line from Bodmin Road to Bodmin General in 1887 and this was extended in 1888 to connect with the earlier Bodmin and ...