(GWR)
Great Western Railway
Incorporated 1835 ~ Opened 1838
(GWR)
OR
(God's Wonderful Railway)
Part I
1843 - 1863
The locomotives of the old Great Western Railway Company were, in the main, constructed at either Swindon or Wolverhampton workshops, to the design of the six successive engineers, Gooch, Armstrong, Dean, Churchward, Collett and Hawksworth. However, many other strange locomotives found their way on to the Great Western stock lists due to the addition of the Welsh companies and other small lines of the British Iles.
Inc = Incorporated
Opd = OpenedAmgd = Amalgamated
The Companies concerned are:
Cheltenham & Great Western Union Railway - Inc 1836 ~ Opd 1841 ~ Amgd 1843
Oxford Railway - Inc 1843 ~ Opd 1844 ~ Amgd 1844
Oxford & Rugby Railway - Inc 1845 ~ Opd 1850 ~ Amgd 1846
Berks & Hants Railway - Inc 1845 ~ Opd 1847 ~ Amgd 1846
Great Western & Uxbridge Railway - Inc 1846 ~ Opd 1856 ~ Amgd 1847
Birmingham, Wolverhampton & Dudley Railway - Inc 1846 ~ Opd 1854 ~ Amgd 1848
Birmingham & Oxford Junction Railway - Inc 1846 ~ Opd 1852 ~ Amgd 1848
Wiltshire, Somerset & Weymouth Railway - Inc 1845 ~ Opd 1848 ~ Amgd 1851
*Shrewsbury, Oswestry & Chester Junct Railway - Inc 1845 ~ Opd 1848 ~ Amgd 1854
*North Wales Mineral Railway - Inc 1844 ~ Opd 1846 ~ Amgd 1854
*Shrewsbury & Chester Railway - Inc 1846 ~ Amgd 1854
(*S. O. & C Junc Railway / Nrth Wales Mineral Railway were amalgamated with S & C Railway.)
Shrewsbury & Birmingham Railway - Inc 1846 ~ Opd 1849 ~ Amgd 1854
Hereford, Ross & Gloucester Railway - Inc 1851 ~ Opd 1853 ~ Amgd 1862
+Forest of Dean Railway - Inc 1826 ~ Amgd 1863
+Bullo Pill Railway - Inc 1809 ~ Opd 1812 ~ Amgd 1863
+South Wales Railway - Inc 1845 ~ Opd 1850 ~ Amgd 1863
(+Bullo Pill Railway / F & D Railway were amalgamated with Sth Wales Railway 1847.)
^Stratford & Moreton Railway - Inc 1821 ~ Opd 1826 ~ Amgd 1863
^Oxford , Worchester & Wolverhampton Ry - Inc 1845 ~ Opd 1850 ~ Amgd 1863
^Worchester & Hereford Railway - Inc 1853 ~ Opd 1859 ~ Amgd 1863
^Newport, Abergavenny & Hereford Railway - Inc 1846 ~ Opd 1854 ~ Amgd 1863
^West Midland Railway - Inc 1860 ~ Amgd 1863
(^ S&M Ry, O. W. & W Ry, W&H Ry, N.A.& H Ry were amalgamated with West Midland Ry 1860.)
+*Swansea & Neath Railway - Inc 1861 ~ Opd 1863 ~ Amgd 1865
+*Vale of Neath Railway - Inc 1846 ~ Opd 1851 ~ Amgd 1865
+Aberdare Valley Railway - Inc 1855 ~ Opd 1856 ~ Amgd 1865
(*S&N Ry, Vale of Neath Ry were amalgamated 1863)
(+S&N Ry, Vale of Neath Ry, Aberdare Ry were amalgamated 1864)
Wellington & Drayton Railway - Inc 1862 ~ Opd 1867 ~ Amgd 1866
Wycombe Railway - Inc 1846 ~ Opd 1854 ~ Amgd 1867
Bristol & South Wales Union Ry - Inc 1857 ~ Opd 1863 ~ Amgd 1868
Tenbury & Bewdley Railway - Inc 1860 ~ Opd 1864 ~ Amgd 1869
Severn Valley Railway - Inc 1853 ~ Opd 1862 ~ Amgd 1870
Stourbridge Railway - Inc 1860 ~ Opd 1863 ~ Amgd 1870
Wrexham & Minera Railway - Inc 1861 ~ Opd 1862 ~ Amgd 1871
Great Western & Brentford Ry - Inc 1855 ~ Opd 1859 ~ Amgd 1871
Wallingford & Watlington Ry - Inc 1864 ~ Opd 1866 ~ Amgd 1872
Briton Ferry Dock & Railway - Inc 1851 ~ Opd 1861 ~ Amgd 1873
Gloucester & Dean Forest Railway - Inc 1846 ~ Opd 1851 ~ Amgd 1874
Bourton On Water Railway - Inc 1860 ~ Opd 1862 ~ Amgd 1874
East Somerset Railway - Inc 1856 ~ Opd 1858 ~ Amgd 1874
Pontypool, Caerleon & Newport Ry - Inc 1865 ~ Opd 1874 ~ Amgd 1876
#"**Bristol & Exeter Railway - Inc 1844 ~ Opd 1841 ~ Amgd 1876
#"**Chard & Taunton Railway - Inc 1861 ~ Opd 1866 ~ Amgd 1876
"**Cheddar Valley & Yatton Ry - Inc 1864 ~ Opd 1869 ~ Amgd 1876
**Exe Valley Railway - Inc 1874 ~ Opd 1885 ~ Amgd 1876
(#B & E Ry, C & T Ry amalgamated 1863.)
(#"B & E Ry, C & T Ry , CV & Y Ry amalgamated 1865.)
(#"**B & E Ry, C & T Ry , CV & Y Ry, EV Ry amalgamated 1875.)
Bala & Dolgelley Railway - Inc 1862 ~ Opd 1868 ~ Amgd 1877
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