Great Western Railway
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Betton Grange running at last!
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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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Wedding ceremony performed on train journey from Paddington to Swansea
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A couple who met on a train, commuted by train to date each other and shared their first kiss on a train decided to tie the knot aboard a Great Western Railway train.
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The future of Great Western Railway
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Mark Hopwood has been managing director of Great Western Railway for almost 16 years, during which time there has been significant change. As the operator looks to the future, he talks to Richard Clinnick about those plans.
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Safety recommendations made after train hits bricks from collapsed wall
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The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has made four safety recommendations to Network Rail after a train hit bricks from a collapsed wall.
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Paddington services disrupted for third day in a row
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Infrastructure failure has disrupted services at the second busiest rail station in the UK for the third day in a row.
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The history of GWR’s ‘Castle’ Class, from design to preservation
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Celebrating the GWR’s ‘Castle’ Class, which entered service over 100 years ago in August 1923.
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From the archive: The Glory Years of BR Steam
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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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Chasing the Castle sets
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GWR is withdrawing its popular Castle HST fleet this year. Rail Express provides the diagrams the remaining sets will operate until May for those wishing to ride on, view or photograph the trains
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Trackside fire disrupts London Paddington services
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A trackside electrical fire has caused large-scale disruption to rail services to and from London Paddington.
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All change at Okehampton
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Andy Coward travelled to Devon to meet Tom Baxter, of the Dartmoor Railway Association, to find out more about the line and how the association is supporting Great Western Railway in promoting the revitalised railway.
