Great Western Railway

Betton Grange running at last!

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Robin Jones

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12th April 2024

New-build GWR 4-6-0 No. 6880 Betton Grange ran for the first time when it was steamed in the yard at Tyseley locomotive Works on Thursday, April 11 – opening a new chapter in Great Western Railway history.
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From the archive: The Glory Years of BR Steam

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Alex Bestwick

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4th July 2023

From The Railway Magazine, December 2005: At Nationalisation, the GWR feared it would lose its unique character, but as it turned out, those worries weren’t to be realised for more than a decade and the 1950s and early ‘60s thus proved to be the era of the ‘Great Western Region’!
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A Royal visit to Swindon’s STEAM Museum

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Alex Bestwick

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8th December 2022

His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent visited the award-winning displays at STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway on Wednesday.
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With full regulator: locomotive performance then and now

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Alex Bestwick

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21st September 2022

Don Benn looks at the work of Gresley’s A4 pacific No. 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley, reaching 90mph in Scotland in 1965, high speed on the West Coast Main line in 1967, a very fine run with a heavy load on the Great Western main line to Bristol in 2008, and returning from Kingswear on the…
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Rail chaos which ruined mourners’ journeys continues for second day

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Alex Bestwick

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20th September 2022

Disruption to train services which caused thousands of mourners to miss the Queen’s funeral will continue until noon on Tuesday, passengers have been warned.
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Train drivers to strike next month as industrial action causes travel chaos

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Alex Bestwick

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28th July 2022

Train drivers at nine rail companies to stage a one-day strike next month in the worsening dispute, causing travel chaos across the country.
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Helston gets historic St Austell GWR footbridge

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Sam Hewitt

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15th March 2019

ST AUSTELL station’s landmark GWR footbridge is to stay in Cornwall after all – having been moved to the award-winning […]
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Caley Blue 419 adds Broadway to English tour

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Sam Hewitt

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13th March 2019

Caledonian Railway 0-4-4T No. 419 has added the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway’s Cotswold Festival of Steam to its biggest-ever tour of […]
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Great Steam Engineers of the 19th century: Part Four

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Sam Hewitt

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13th February 2019

In the 1850s, railway companies grew bigger through new construction and mergers.
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No. 5619 is Severn Valley’s latest spring gala visitor

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Gareth Evans

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15th January 2019

The Severn Valley Railway (SVR) has confirmed the latest visiting locomotive for its spring steam gala is GWR 0-6-2T No. […]
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