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, first terminus of the GWR, is the building to the left of this picture, at the time the largest span for a brick arch bridge

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a History of rail transport in Great Britain and a notable example of civil engineering, linking London with the West Country, South West England and South Wales. It was founded in 1833, kept its identity through the 1923 Railways Act 1921, and became the Western Region of British Railways at Nationalization in 1948.

Known admiringly to some as "God's Wonderful Railway", jocularly to others as the "Great Way Round" (some of its earliest routes were not the most direct), and by some as the "Goes When Ready" due to the casual way in which some of its branch lines were run, it gained great fame as the "Holiday Line", taking huge numbers of people to resorts in the southwest. The company's best-known livery was quite distinctive: locomotives were Middle Chrome Green (similar to Brunswick green), above Indian Red (later, plain black) frames; while the carriages were two-tone "chocolate and cream".

In 1999, in recognition of the railway's historical importance, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport added parts of the GWR to UNESCO's tentative World Heritage Sites list.UNESCO (2007) As of 2006, following the Brunel 200 celebrations, the nomination is being supported by English Heritage, and is due to be considered by UNESCO in 2007.Morris (2006)

Early history 1840 Fire FlyThe Great Western Railway originated from the desire of Bristol merchants to maintain the position of their port as the second port in the country and the chief one for American trade. The increase in the size of ships and the gradual silting of the River Avon, Bristol made Liverpool an increasingly attractive port, and with its rail connection with London developing in the 1830s it threatened Bristol's status. The answer for Bristol was, with the co-operation of London interests, to build a line of their own, a railway built to unprecedented standards of excellence to outperform the other lines being constructed to the north-west.

The Company was founded at a public meeting in Bristol in 1833, and was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1835. Isambard Kingdom Brunel was appointed as engineer at the age of 27, and made two controversial decisions: to use a broad gauge of seven feet (actually 7 ft 0.25 in or 2140 mm) for the track, to allow large wheels, providing smoother running at high speeds; and to take a route which passed north of the North Wessex Downs, an area with no significant towns, though it did offer potential connections to Oxford and Gloucester and then to follow the Thames into London. He surveyed the entire length of the route between London and Bristol himself.

G. T. Clark played an important role as an engineer on the project, reputedly taking the management of two divisions of the route including bridges over the River Thames at Basildon and Moulsford, and Paddington Station.James, B. Ll. (2004) " Clark, George Thomas (1809–1898)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 21 August 2007 Involvement in major earth-moving works seems to have fed Clark's interest in geology and archaeology and he, anonymously, authored two guidebooks on the railway, G. T. (1839) Guidebook to the Great Western Railway G. T. (1846) The History and Description of the Great Western Railway, one illustrated with lithographs by John Cooke Bourne, in addition to a critique of Brunel's methods and the broad gauge.(1895) Gentleman's Magazine, 279, 489–506

The initial group of locomotives ordered by Brunel to his own specifications proved unsatisfactory, apart from the GWR Star Class, and 20-year-old Daniel Gooch (later Sir) was appointed as Superintendent of Locomotives. Brunel and Gooch chose to locate their Swindon railway works at the village of Swindon, at the point where the gradual ascent from London turned into the steeper descent to the River Avon, Bristol valley at Bath, Somerset.

Openings The first stretch of line, from London Paddington station to Taplow near Maidenhead, opened in 1838. The full line to Bristol Temple Meads railway station opened on completion of Box Tunnel in 1841.

From then onwards, by amalgamations and new construction, the railway took shape, as can be seen from the following list (dates are when opened/absorbed):





:See also - List of early British railway companies

The Bristol and Exeter Railway reached Exeter, England by 1844, and the Bristol and Gloucester Railway brought the broad gauge to Gloucester in the same year. Gloucester was already served by the standard-gauge Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (opened throughout in 1841), resulting in a break-of-gauge, and the need for all passengers and goods travelling through Gloucester to change trains.

The GWR commissioned the world's first commercial Electrical telegraph line. This ran for 13 miles (21 km) from Paddington station to West Drayton and came into operation on 9 April 1839.

In 1846, the Great Western Railway took over the running of the Kennet and Avon Canal.

The "gauge war" This was the beginning of the "gauge war", and resulted in the appointment by Parliament of the United Kingdom of a Gauge Commission, which duly moved in favour of standard gauge.

The undaunted GWR pressed ahead into the West Midlands (region), in hard-fought competition with the London and North Western Railway. Birmingham was reached in 1852, at Birmingham Snow Hill station (although the GWR had initially considered building to Rugby, Warwickshire instead of Birmingham), Wolverhampton Low Level railway station (the furthest-north broad-gauge station) and Birkenhead (on standard-gauge track) in 1854. The Bristol and Gloucester had been bought by the Midland Railway in 1846 and converted to standard gauge in 1854, bringing dual gauge track (with three rails, so that both broad and standard gauge trains could run on it) to Bristol. By the 1860s the gauge war was lost; with the merger of the standard-gauge West Midlands Railway into the GWR in 1861 mixed gauge came to Paddington station, and by 1869 there was no broad-gauge track north of Oxford.

the railway clings to the coastlineMeanwhile, further developments were made in the GWR's heartland: the South Devon Railway Company (which for a time experimented with the “Atmospheric railway” system of propulsion) was opened in 1849, extending the broad gauge to Plymouth, and the Cornwall Railway took it over the Royal Albert Bridge and into Cornwall, reaching Penzance, Cornwall by 1867. The South Wales Railway, terminating at Neyland, opened in 1850 and was connected to the GWR via Brunel's ungainly Wye bridge in 1852. The route from Wales to London via Gloucester was a roundabout one, so work on the Severn Tunnel began in 1873, but unexpected underwater springs slowed the work down and prevented its opening until 1886.

Through this period the conversion to standard gauge continued, with mixed-gauge track reaching Exeter in 1876. By this time most conversions were bypassing mixed gauge and going directly from broad to standard. The final stretch of broad gauge was converted to standard in a single weekend in May 1892.

Into the Twentieth Century Freed from what was by then the burden of the broad gauge, the 1890s also saw improvements in service of the generally conservative GWR - restaurant cars, much improved conditions for third class passengers, steam heating of trains, and accelerated express services. This was largely at the initiative of T. I. Allen, the Superintendent of the Line, and one of a group of talented senior managers who led the railway into the Edwardian era: Viscount Emlyn (Earl Cawdor), Chairman from 1895 to 1905; Sir Joseph Wilkinson, general manager from 1896-1903, and his successor, the former chief engineer Sir James Inglis; and George Jackson Churchward, William Dean's successor as Chief mechanical engineer from 1902 to 1922.MacDermot, vol. 2

Infrastructure With its shares in demand from the later 1890s it was possible for the company to raise substantial sums from new issues to support the building of new lines and upgrading of old ones to shorten its previously circuitous routes. The principal lines were

Related works included those at Goodwick in South Wales in an attempt to attract transatlantic liner traffic and the substantial rebuilding of Birmingham Snow Hill railway station.

New locomotives After 1902 George Jackson Churchward developed nine standard locomotive types, with flat-topped Belpaire fireboxes, tapered boilers, long smokeboxes, boiler top feeds, long lap, long travel valve gear and many standard parts between locomotive types. Most of these were developed from five experimental locomotives, No's 40, 97, 98, 99 and 115. From these were developed the famous GWR 4000 Classs, the GWR 2900 Classs and the GWR 2800 Classs. Such was the success of these locomotives that they influenced locomotive design in the United Kingdom until the demise of steam traction. Two notable locomotives were GWR 111 The Great Bear, the first 4-6-2 locomotive in the United Kingdom and 3440 GWR 3440 City of Truro, the first locomotive to be recorded at a speed of 100 mph (160 km/h) in 1904 (although this speed has never been formally confirmed).

Churchward also remodelled Swindon works, building the one-and-a-half-acre (6,000 m²) boiler-erecting shops and the first static locomotive-testing plant in the United Kingdom.

1923 Grouping At the outbreak of World War I the GWR, along with the other major railways, was taken into government control. After the war the government considered permanent nationalisation, but preferred a compulsory amalgamation of the railways into four large groups. The GWR alone preserved its identity through the Railways Act 1921, which took effect on 1 January 1923.

Constituent companies The new Great Western Railway comprised the following constituent companies: Total route length of the GWR was 3800 miles (6116 km)

The details of all railways within the new Great Western Railway are given in the List of constituents of the Great Western Railway.

One final company was absorbed, in 1930 - the narrow gauge railways Corris Railway.

Other statistics

Much of the inherited infrastructure had come into being for handling the South Wales coal traffic. Though this appeared to be a great coup for the GWR, the coal traffic declined significantly as the use of coal as a naval fuel declined, and within a decade the GWR was itself the largest single user of Welsh coal.

New locomotives (1920s) The 1920s also saw the introduction of the GWR's most famous locomotives - the GWR 4073 Class and GWR 6000 Class classes developed by Churchward's successor, Charles Collett. The 1930s brought hard times, and the records set by the Castles and Kings were surpassed by other companies, but the company remained in relatively good financial health despite the Great Depression.

Post WWII Nationalisation World War II brought a further period of direct government control, and by its end a Labour government was in power and planning to Nationalization the railways. The war-damaged GWR became part of British Railways on 1 January 1948. One of the last Directors of the GWR, Harold Macmillan, was instrumental in the defeat of the Labour Government by the Conservatives, led then by Winston Churchill, in the United Kingdom general election, 1951 and later himself became Prime Minister in 1957.

Preservation Earl of Berkeley at Horsted Keynes railway station on the Bluebell Railway

The traditions of the GWR are kept alive by many heritage railways including at Didcot Railway Centre, the South Devon Railway Trust, the Severn Valley Railway, the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, the Dean Forest Railway, Telford Steam Railway, West Somerset Railway and at Birmingham Railway Museum. The Swindon Steam Railway Museum, Swindon, is dedicated to the history and life of the GWR.

Revival of name On Privatization of the railways in the early 1990s, the "Great Western" name was revived for the train operating company providing passenger services to the West. Services are now run under the franchise name First Great Western.

, by J. M. W. Turner.

Cultural references The Great Western Railway was immortalised in Bob Godfrey's Oscar winning 1975 animated film "Great", which tells the story of Brunel's engineering accomplishments. The film features poignant shots of disused and neglected GWR engines to the background of a specially written song entitled 'GWR':

GWR, we've never been that far, Brunel has had his first success.When he drew up the plans, the company said yes,that's how they opened up the west, it's too spectacular, it's GWR!

The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film of 1975.

The Great Western Railway was also the subject of a BBC children's television series God's Wonderful Railway, which aired in 1980.

In the 1970 film The Railway Children the Old Gentleman's train is hauled by Great Western Railway pannier tank No. 5775.

In the children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, two characters come from the Great Western Railway: Duck the Great Western Engine and Railway engines (Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends)#Oliver. Both characters also come from The Railway Series books.

Manic Street Preachers lead vocalist James Dean Bradfield first solo album was named The Great Western, most likely being a reference to the trips he took to London from his home in South Wales.

See also

Notes References External links

, first terminus of the GWR, is the building to the left of this picture, at the time the largest span for a brick arch bridge

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a History of rail transport in Great Britain and a notable example of civil engineering, linking London with the West Country, South West England and South Wales. It was founded in 1833, kept its identity through the 1923 Railways Act 1921, and became the Western Region of British Railways at Nationalization in 1948.

Known admiringly to some as "God's Wonderful Railway", jocularly to others as the "Great Way Round" (some of its earliest routes were not the most direct), and by some as the "Goes When Ready" due to the casual way in which some of its branch lines were run, it gained great fame as the "Holiday Line", taking huge numbers of people to resorts in the southwest. The company's best-known livery was quite distinctive: locomotives were Middle Chrome Green (similar to Brunswick green), above Indian Red (later, plain black) frames; while the carriages were two-tone "chocolate and cream".

In 1999, in recognition of the railway's historical importance, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport added parts of the GWR to UNESCO's tentative World Heritage Sites list.UNESCO (2007) As of 2006, following the Brunel 200 celebrations, the nomination is being supported by English Heritage, and is due to be considered by UNESCO in 2007.Morris (2006)

Early history 1840 Fire FlyThe Great Western Railway originated from the desire of Bristol merchants to maintain the position of their port as the second port in the country and the chief one for American trade. The increase in the size of ships and the gradual silting of the River Avon, Bristol made Liverpool an increasingly attractive port, and with its rail connection with London developing in the 1830s it threatened Bristol's status. The answer for Bristol was, with the co-operation of London interests, to build a line of their own, a railway built to unprecedented standards of excellence to outperform the other lines being constructed to the north-west.

The Company was founded at a public meeting in Bristol in 1833, and was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1835. Isambard Kingdom Brunel was appointed as engineer at the age of 27, and made two controversial decisions: to use a broad gauge of seven feet (actually 7 ft 0.25 in or 2140 mm) for the track, to allow large wheels, providing smoother running at high speeds; and to take a route which passed north of the North Wessex Downs, an area with no significant towns, though it did offer potential connections to Oxford and Gloucester and then to follow the Thames into London. He surveyed the entire length of the route between London and Bristol himself.

G. T. Clark played an important role as an engineer on the project, reputedly taking the management of two divisions of the route including bridges over the River Thames at Basildon and Moulsford, and Paddington Station.James, B. Ll. (2004) " Clark, George Thomas (1809–1898)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 21 August 2007 Involvement in major earth-moving works seems to have fed Clark's interest in geology and archaeology and he, anonymously, authored two guidebooks on the railway, G. T. (1839) Guidebook to the Great Western Railway G. T. (1846) The History and Description of the Great Western Railway, one illustrated with lithographs by John Cooke Bourne, in addition to a critique of Brunel's methods and the broad gauge.(1895) Gentleman's Magazine, 279, 489–506

The initial group of locomotives ordered by Brunel to his own specifications proved unsatisfactory, apart from the GWR Star Class, and 20-year-old Daniel Gooch (later Sir) was appointed as Superintendent of Locomotives. Brunel and Gooch chose to locate their Swindon railway works at the village of Swindon, at the point where the gradual ascent from London turned into the steeper descent to the River Avon, Bristol valley at Bath, Somerset.

Openings The first stretch of line, from London Paddington station to Taplow near Maidenhead, opened in 1838. The full line to Bristol Temple Meads railway station opened on completion of Box Tunnel in 1841.

From then onwards, by amalgamations and new construction, the railway took shape, as can be seen from the following list (dates are when opened/absorbed):





:See also - List of early British railway companies

The Bristol and Exeter Railway reached Exeter, England by 1844, and the Bristol and Gloucester Railway brought the broad gauge to Gloucester in the same year. Gloucester was already served by the standard-gauge Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (opened throughout in 1841), resulting in a break-of-gauge, and the need for all passengers and goods travelling through Gloucester to change trains.

The GWR commissioned the world's first commercial Electrical telegraph line. This ran for 13 miles (21 km) from Paddington station to West Drayton and came into operation on 9 April 1839.

In 1846, the Great Western Railway took over the running of the Kennet and Avon Canal.

The "gauge war" This was the beginning of the "gauge war", and resulted in the appointment by Parliament of the United Kingdom of a Gauge Commission, which duly moved in favour of standard gauge.

The undaunted GWR pressed ahead into the West Midlands (region), in hard-fought competition with the London and North Western Railway. Birmingham was reached in 1852, at Birmingham Snow Hill station (although the GWR had initially considered building to Rugby, Warwickshire instead of Birmingham), Wolverhampton Low Level railway station (the furthest-north broad-gauge station) and Birkenhead (on standard-gauge track) in 1854. The Bristol and Gloucester had been bought by the Midland Railway in 1846 and converted to standard gauge in 1854, bringing dual gauge track (with three rails, so that both broad and standard gauge trains could run on it) to Bristol. By the 1860s the gauge war was lost; with the merger of the standard-gauge West Midlands Railway into the GWR in 1861 mixed gauge came to Paddington station, and by 1869 there was no broad-gauge track north of Oxford.

the railway clings to the coastlineMeanwhile, further developments were made in the GWR's heartland: the South Devon Railway Company (which for a time experimented with the “Atmospheric railway” system of propulsion) was opened in 1849, extending the broad gauge to Plymouth, and the Cornwall Railway took it over the Royal Albert Bridge and into Cornwall, reaching Penzance, Cornwall by 1867. The South Wales Railway, terminating at Neyland, opened in 1850 and was connected to the GWR via Brunel's ungainly Wye bridge in 1852. The route from Wales to London via Gloucester was a roundabout one, so work on the Severn Tunnel began in 1873, but unexpected underwater springs slowed the work down and prevented its opening until 1886.

Through this period the conversion to standard gauge continued, with mixed-gauge track reaching Exeter in 1876. By this time most conversions were bypassing mixed gauge and going directly from broad to standard. The final stretch of broad gauge was converted to standard in a single weekend in May 1892.

Into the Twentieth Century Freed from what was by then the burden of the broad gauge, the 1890s also saw improvements in service of the generally conservative GWR - restaurant cars, much improved conditions for third class passengers, steam heating of trains, and accelerated express services. This was largely at the initiative of T. I. Allen, the Superintendent of the Line, and one of a group of talented senior managers who led the railway into the Edwardian era: Viscount Emlyn (Earl Cawdor), Chairman from 1895 to 1905; Sir Joseph Wilkinson, general manager from 1896-1903, and his successor, the former chief engineer Sir James Inglis; and George Jackson Churchward, William Dean's successor as Chief mechanical engineer from 1902 to 1922.MacDermot, vol. 2

Infrastructure With its shares in demand from the later 1890s it was possible for the company to raise substantial sums from new issues to support the building of new lines and upgrading of old ones to shorten its previously circuitous routes. The principal lines were

Related works included those at Goodwick in South Wales in an attempt to attract transatlantic liner traffic and the substantial rebuilding of Birmingham Snow Hill railway station.

New locomotives After 1902 George Jackson Churchward developed nine standard locomotive types, with flat-topped Belpaire fireboxes, tapered boilers, long smokeboxes, boiler top feeds, long lap, long travel valve gear and many standard parts between locomotive types. Most of these were developed from five experimental locomotives, No's 40, 97, 98, 99 and 115. From these were developed the famous GWR 4000 Classs, the GWR 2900 Classs and the GWR 2800 Classs. Such was the success of these locomotives that they influenced locomotive design in the United Kingdom until the demise of steam traction. Two notable locomotives were GWR 111 The Great Bear, the first 4-6-2 locomotive in the United Kingdom and 3440 GWR 3440 City of Truro, the first locomotive to be recorded at a speed of 100 mph (160 km/h) in 1904 (although this speed has never been formally confirmed).

Churchward also remodelled Swindon works, building the one-and-a-half-acre (6,000 m²) boiler-erecting shops and the first static locomotive-testing plant in the United Kingdom.

1923 Grouping At the outbreak of World War I the GWR, along with the other major railways, was taken into government control. After the war the government considered permanent nationalisation, but preferred a compulsory amalgamation of the railways into four large groups. The GWR alone preserved its identity through the Railways Act 1921, which took effect on 1 January 1923.

Constituent companies The new Great Western Railway comprised the following constituent companies: Total route length of the GWR was 3800 miles (6116 km)

The details of all railways within the new Great Western Railway are given in the List of constituents of the Great Western Railway.

One final company was absorbed, in 1930 - the narrow gauge railways Corris Railway.

Other statistics

Much of the inherited infrastructure had come into being for handling the South Wales coal traffic. Though this appeared to be a great coup for the GWR, the coal traffic declined significantly as the use of coal as a naval fuel declined, and within a decade the GWR was itself the largest single user of Welsh coal.

New locomotives (1920s) The 1920s also saw the introduction of the GWR's most famous locomotives - the GWR 4073 Class and GWR 6000 Class classes developed by Churchward's successor, Charles Collett. The 1930s brought hard times, and the records set by the Castles and Kings were surpassed by other companies, but the company remained in relatively good financial health despite the Great Depression.

Post WWII Nationalisation World War II brought a further period of direct government control, and by its end a Labour government was in power and planning to Nationalization the railways. The war-damaged GWR became part of British Railways on 1 January 1948. One of the last Directors of the GWR, Harold Macmillan, was instrumental in the defeat of the Labour Government by the Conservatives, led then by Winston Churchill, in the United Kingdom general election, 1951 and later himself became Prime Minister in 1957.

Preservation Earl of Berkeley at Horsted Keynes railway station on the Bluebell Railway

The traditions of the GWR are kept alive by many heritage railways including at Didcot Railway Centre, the South Devon Railway Trust, the Severn Valley Railway, the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, the Dean Forest Railway, Telford Steam Railway, West Somerset Railway and at Birmingham Railway Museum. The Swindon Steam Railway Museum, Swindon, is dedicated to the history and life of the GWR.

Revival of name On Privatization of the railways in the early 1990s, the "Great Western" name was revived for the train operating company providing passenger services to the West. Services are now run under the franchise name First Great Western.

, by J. M. W. Turner.

Cultural references The Great Western Railway was immortalised in Bob Godfrey's Oscar winning 1975 animated film "Great", which tells the story of Brunel's engineering accomplishments. The film features poignant shots of disused and neglected GWR engines to the background of a specially written song entitled 'GWR':

GWR, we've never been that far, Brunel has had his first success.When he drew up the plans, the company said yes,that's how they opened up the west, it's too spectacular, it's GWR!

The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film of 1975.

The Great Western Railway was also the subject of a BBC children's television series God's Wonderful Railway, which aired in 1980.

In the 1970 film The Railway Children the Old Gentleman's train is hauled by Great Western Railway pannier tank No. 5775.

In the children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, two characters come from the Great Western Railway: Duck the Great Western Engine and Railway engines (Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends)#Oliver. Both characters also come from The Railway Series books.

Manic Street Preachers lead vocalist James Dean Bradfield first solo album was named The Great Western, most likely being a reference to the trips he took to London from his home in South Wales.

See also

Notes References External links



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