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The Great Western Railway was a British railway company founded in 1833 that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838, completing the initial London to Bristol route in 1841. The company was engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who built it to a broad gauge of 7 feet, though a series of amalgamations from 1854 also brought standard gauge operation, and the last broad gauge services ran in 1892.

Facts
Company Type
Train operating company 2
Founded Year
1833 2
Chronology
Dissolved Year
1948 1
Company Type
Company Type (category)
Railway Company 1
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Source GWR 1000 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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The Great Western Railway 1000 Class or County Class was a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive.

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Source GWR 1400 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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The GWR 1400 Class is a class of steam locomotive designed by the Great Western Railway for branch line passenger work.

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Source GWR 2251 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2251 Class or Collett Goods Class was a class of 0-6-0 type steam tender locomotives designed for medium-powered freight.

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Source GWR 2301 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2301 Class or Dean Goods Class is a class of British 0-6-0 steam locomotives.

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Source GWR 2800 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2800 Class is a class of steam locomotive designed in 1903 by George Jackson Churchward.

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Source GWR 2900 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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designed by George Jackson Churchward

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Source GWR 3031 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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The Dean Single, 3031 Class, or Achilles Class is a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1899.

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Source GWR 3800 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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The Great Western Railway 3800 Class, also known as the County Class, were a class of 4-4-0 steam locomotives for express passenger train work introduced in 1904 in a batch of ten.

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Source GWR 4200 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4200 Class is a class of 2-8-0T steam locomotives.

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Source GWR 4575 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4575 Class is a class of 2-6-2T British steam locomotives.

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Source GWR 4700 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4700 Class was a class of nine 2-8-0 steam locomotives, designed by George Jackson Churchward.

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Source GWR 4900 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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designed by Charles Collett for the Great Western Railway

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Source GWR 5600 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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They were designed by Charles Collett for the Great Western Railway (GWR)

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Source GWR 5700 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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The GWR 5700 Class (or 57xx class) is a class of 0-6-0PT steam locomotive built by the Great Western Railway (GWR) and British Railways (BR) between 1929 and 1950.

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Source GWR 6100 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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The GWR 6100 Class is a class of 2-6-2T side tank steam locomotives.

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Source GWR 6400 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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The Great Western Railway (GWR) 6400 Class is a class of 0-6-0PT type steam locomotives introduced by Charles Collett in 1932.

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Source GWR 6800 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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all built at the Swindon works

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Source GWR 6959 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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They were a development by Frederick Hawksworth of Charles Collett's earlier Hall Class

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Source GWR 7800 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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They were named after Manors in the area covered by the Great Western Railway.

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Source GWR 9400 Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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The Great Western Railway (GWR) 9400 Class is a class of 0-6-0PT pannier tank steam locomotive, used for shunting and banking duties.

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Source Wikipedia: GWR 4073 ClassSource page, makertier 2

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Source GWR Iron Duke Class (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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The Great Western Railway Iron Duke Class 4-2-2 was a class of

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Source GWR railcars (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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In 1933, the Great Western Railway introduced the first of what was to become a successful series of diesel railcars, which survived in regular use into the 1960s

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Source GWR steam rail motors (Wikipedia)Lead, manufacturer
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The steam rail motors (SRM) were self-propelled carriages operated by the Great Western Railway in England and Wales from 1903 to 1935.

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Source Wikidata: Great Western Railwaytier 2
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1. Wikidata: Great Western Railway
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2. Wikidata: Great Western Railway
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  • Wikidata item description
    train operating company in Great Britain
  • Wikidata statement: inception (P571)
    inception: 1833
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Great Western Railway (Wikipedia)
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The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales.
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