| LC control no. | n 80077889 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Great Western Railway (Great Britain) |
| Variant(s) | G.W.R. Great Western Railway Company of England GWR (Great Western Railway) |
| See also | Mergee: Banbury & Cheltenham Railway Mergee: Brecon and Merthyr Railway Mergee: Bristol & South Wales Union Railway Mergee: Cambrian Railways Mergee: Cardiff Railway Mergee: Culm Valley Light Railway Mergee: Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway Mergee: Ely Valley Railway Mergee: Lambourn Valley Railway Mergee: Midland & South Western Junction Railway Mergee: Rhymney Railway Mergee: Taff Vale Railway Company Mergee: Vale of Neath Railway Company Mergee: Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway (1903-1923) Mergee: West Somerset Railway Successor: British Railways |
| Beginning date | 1835 |
| Ending date | 1948 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Field of activity | Railroads |
| Found in | Historic sites and scenes of England, 1924: t.p. (Great Western Railway Company of England) The Banbury & Cheltenham Direct Railway, 2004: p.60 (absorbed by the Great Western Railway in 1897) Taff Vale miscellany, c1988: text (in 1923 the Taff Vale Railway merged with the Great Western Railway) Didcot to Winchester, 1998: p.[5] (the DNSR [i.e. the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway] was absorbed by the GWR in 1923) The Ely Valley Railway, c2000: p.49 (on 1 July 1903, the EVR was acquired by the Great Western Railway) British Steam Railway Miscellanea WWW site, 31 Mar. 2005: GWR family tree (the GWR absorbed the Culm Valley Light Railway in 1880; followed in 1922 by the Cardiff Railway, Cambrian Railways and Rhymney Railway and in 1923 the Midland & South Western Junction Railway) British Steam Railway Miscellanea WWW site, 6 Sept. 2007: GWR family tree (the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway, incorp. 1899, was absorbed into the Great Western Railway in 1923) The Minehead Branch 1848-1971, 2006: jkt. (West Somerset Railway; absorbed by the Great Western Railway in 1922) The Lambourn Valley Railway, c2013: page 18 (in 1905, the LVR ceased to be an independent railway and merged with the GWR) The Bristol & South Wales Union Railway and the New Passage ferry, 2013: p.21 (amalgamated with the Great Western Railway on 1 August 1868) |
| Not found in | Wikipedia, viewed June 19, 2012: Vale of Neath Railway Company (opened Sept. 24, 1851, amalgamated with Great Western Railway on Feb. 1, 1865) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 50079881 |
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