Great Western Railway

  • Bombardier to fit ETCS kit on Heathrow Express ‘387s’

    Bombardier to fit ETCS kit on Heathrow Express ‘387s’

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    PORTERBROOK has signed a contract with Bombardier Transportation to fit ETCS digital signalling equipment to Great Western Railway Class 387 EMUs, which are being converted for Heathrow Express services. The investment by Porterbrook is valued at £11million. GWR is having 12 Class 387s converted for the airport express work, with No. 387140 having already been…

  • Great Steam Engineers of the 19th century: Part Four

    Great Steam Engineers of the 19th century: Part Four

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    In the 1850s, railway companies grew bigger through new construction and mergers.

  • What’s in the Shops: O-gauge Great Western Class 43XX mogul is another Heljan triumph

    What’s in the Shops: O-gauge Great Western Class 43XX mogul is another Heljan triumph

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    Nigel Burkin discusses a model of one of the Great Western Railway’s 43XX 2-6-0 mixed traffic locomotives.

  • £2.2million reconstruction for VoR’s Aberystwyth station

    £2.2million reconstruction for VoR’s Aberystwyth station

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    THE Vale of Rheidol Railway (VoR) is starting a £2.2million reconstruction of its Aberystwyth terminus. The work will transform it into a Great Western Railway-style station with a multi-function display and entertainment facility in the former standard gauge loco shed. VoR is providing 35% of the finance for the Wales to the World project, supported…

  • A moving tribute – in more ways than one

    A moving tribute – in more ways than one

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    Tributes were paid to the 2545 Great Western Railway workers who died during the First World War.


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