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The train has approximately four and a half miles to run to its ultimate destination at Paddington.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/85/679'><img class='lazy' src='/images/85000/85679.jpg' srcset='/images/85000/85679.jpg 800w,/images400/85000/85679.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/85000/85679.jpg 200w' width='31.216434658069%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Roger Geach 09/05/1995' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='37703 on a 0952 Neasden to Old Oak Common engineers' service, on the goods lines at Acton, on 9th May 1995. 37703 is still in service, most recently working in the Harry Needle fleet.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/5/116'><img class='lazy' src='/images/5000/5116.jpg' srcset='/images/5000/5116.jpg 800w,/images400/5000/5116.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/5000/5116.jpg 200w' width='30.698662389038%' style='margin: 1px;' title='John Furnevel 20/07/2005' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='A Foster Yeoman stone train alongside Acton yard on 20 July 2005.'></a><br><a target='enlarge' href='/img/48/430'><img class='lazy' src='/images/48000/48430.jpg' srcset='/images/48000/48430.jpg 800w,/images400/48000/48430.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/48000/48430.jpg 200w' width='31.666666666667%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Bill Roberton 25/07/2014' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='First Great Western 166202 heads west through Acton Main Line on 25 July 2014.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/79/175'><img class='lazy' src='/images/79000/79175.jpg' srcset='/images/79000/79175.jpg 800w,/images400/79000/79175.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/79000/79175.jpg 200w' width='31.666666666667%' style='margin: 1px;' title='David Bosher 22/05/2021' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='Class 800 unit on a GWR express to Paddington speeding past the obsolete fast tracks up platform at Acton Main Line on 22nd May 2021. The down fast tracks platform has been demolished. The class 800s came into service on the GWR main line in October 2017.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/77/218'><img class='lazy' src='/images/77000/77218.jpg' srcset='/images/77000/77218.jpg 800w,/images400/77000/77218.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/77000/77218.jpg 200w' width='31.666666666667%' style='margin: 1px;' title='David Bosher 22/05/2021' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='Acton Main Line, originally opened in 1868, looking east towards Paddington, on 22nd May 2021. After a long delay, the new footbridge and ticket hall, incorporating lifts to give step free access for the first time in the station's 153 year history, was opened on 18th March 2021. The obsolete up platform on the main line tracks (on right) is now fenced off while, further right, the down platform has been demolished.'></a><br><a target='enlarge' href='/img/76/979'><img class='lazy' src='/images/76000/76979.jpg' srcset='/images/76000/76979.jpg 800w,/images400/76000/76979.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/76000/76979.jpg 200w' width='33.912775571683%' style='margin: 1px;' title='David Bosher 22/05/2021' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='Exterior of the brand new ticket hall at the TfL Rail station at Acton Main Line in west London, unveiled after a lengthy delay on 18th March 2021, seen here on 22nd May 2021. This will eventually be part of Crossrail that should have opened in December 2018.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/76/982'><img class='lazy' src='/images/76000/76982.jpg' srcset='/images/76000/76982.jpg 800w,/images400/76000/76982.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/76000/76982.jpg 200w' width='30.543612214159%' style='margin: 1px;' title='David Bosher 22/05/2021' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='345002, with a TfL Rail service to Paddington, arriving at its penultimate stop at Acton Main Line on 22nd May 2021. This will cease to be the penultimate stop for TfL Rail trains once they begin running through the Crossrail tunnels to Abbey Wood in south-east London and Shenfield in Essex, which should have happened in December 2018. As of the date of this photo, there is still no definite sign of when it will open. For the present, TfL Rail operates in two separate sections between Reading/Heathrow Terminal 5 and Paddington and Liverpool Street and Shenfield.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/80/206'><img class='lazy' src='/images/80000/80206.jpg' srcset='/images/80000/80206.jpg 800w,/images400/80000/80206.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80206.jpg 200w' width='30.543612214159%' style='margin: 1px;' title='David Bosher 26/02/2022' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='66168 on siding to the west of Acton Main Line station, seen here from passing UK Railtours' excursion from Stevenage to Hereford on the morning of Saturday, 26th February 2022. Just south of Finsbury Park (where I joined the train) the excursion travelled via the restored Belle Isle curve up to Camden Road and then through Gospel Oak and West Hampstead to just south of Willesden Junction. 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Stations on this section at: <a href="/locations/P/Paddington_1st/">Paddington [1st]</a>, <a href="/locations/R/Royal_Oak/">Royal Oak</a>, <a href="/locations/W/Westbourne_Park/">Westbourne Park</a>, <a href="/locations/A/Acton/">Acton</a>, <a href="/locations/E/Ealing_Broadway/">Ealing Broadway</a>, <a href="/locations/W/West_Ealing/">West Ealing</a>, <a href="/locations/H/Hanwell_and_Elthorne/">Hanwell and Elthorne</a>, <a href="/locations/S/Southall/">Southall</a>, <a href="/locations/H/Hayes_and_Harlington/">Hayes and Harlington</a>, <span style="color:#600">West Drayton and Yiewsley</span>, <a href="/locations/I/Iver/">Iver</a>, <a href="/locations/L/Langley/">Langley</a>, <a href="/locations/S/Slough/">Slough</a>, <span style="color:#600">Burham</span>, <a href="/locations/T/Taplow/">Taplow</a>, and <span style="color:#600">Maidenhead [1st] </span>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>06/04/1839</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br><span style="color:#600">Cooke and Wheatstone</span> 5 needle system electric telegraph installed between <a href="/locations/P/Paddington_1st/">Paddington [1st]</a> and <a href="/locations/H/Hanwell/">Hanwell</a>. This was the first commercial telegraph line (and in fact first commercial use of electricity) and the public were able to pay to send messages.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>09/04/1839</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Electric telegraph completed from Hanwell to West Drayton. Later extended to Slough.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/07/1839</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br><span style="color:#600">Maidenhead [1st] </span> to <a href="/locations/T/Twyford/">Twyford</a> opened. Stations on this section at: <a href="/locations/M/Maidenhead/">Maidenhead</a> (New), and <a href="/locations/T/Twyford/">Twyford</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>30/03/1840</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Twyford to Reading opened. Stations on this section at: Reading.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/06/1840</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Reading to Steventon opened. Stations on this section at: Tilehurst, Pangborne, Goring & Streatley, Cholsey & Moulsford, Didcot, Steventon.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>20/07/1840</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br><a href="/locations/S/Steventon/">Steventon</a> to <span style="color:#600">Faringdon Road</span> (now <a href="/locations/C/Challow/">Challow</a>) opened. Stations on this section at: <a href="/locations/W/Wantage_Road/">Wantage Road</a>, <a href="/locations/C/Challow/">Challow</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>31/08/1840</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br><span style="color:#600">Bristol [1st] </span> to <span style="color:#600">Bath</span> opened. Stations on this section at: <span style="color:#600">Bath</span>, <a href="/locations/O/Oldfield_Park/">Oldfield Park</a>, <a href="/locations/S/Saltford/">Saltford</a>, <span style="color:#600">Keynshaw & Somerdale</span>, <span style="color:#600">St Annes Park</span>, and <a href="/locations/B/Bristol_Temple_Meads/">Bristol Temple Meads</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>17/12/1840</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br><span style="color:#600">Faringdon Road</span> to <span style="color:#600">Hay Lane</span> (just west of <a href="/locations/S/Swindon/">Swindon</a>) opened. Stations on this section at: <a href="/locations/U/Uffington/">Uffington</a>, <a href="/locations/S/Shrivenham/">Shrivenham</a>, <a href="/locations/S/Stratton_Park_Halt/">Stratton Park Halt</a>, <a href="/locations/S/Swindon/">Swindon</a>, <span style="color:#600">Hay Lane</span> (But was this a station?).</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>31/05/1841</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Hay Lane to Chippenham opened. Stations on this section at: Wootton Bassett, Dauntsey, Malford Halt, Chippenham.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>30/06/1841</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Chippenham to Bath opened, Great Western Railway main line open throughout. Stations on this section at: Corsham, Box, Bathford Halt, Bathmapton.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>08/07/1844</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/B/Bristol_and_Gloucester_Railway/">Bristol and Gloucester Railway</a><br><a href="/locations/S/Standish_Junction/">Standish Junction</a> to <a href="/locations/G/Gloucester/">Gloucester</a> opened. The <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> had running powers from <a href="/locations/S/Standish_Junction/">Standish Junction</a> to <a href="/locations/G/Gloucester/">Gloucester</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1845</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/B/Bristol_and_Exeter_Railway/">Bristol and Exeter Railway</a><BR><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Great Western considers buying the Bristol and Exeter which would be threatened by their planned direct London to Exeter line.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>07/11/1845</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/B/Bristol_and_Exeter_Railway/">Bristol and Exeter Railway</a><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Great Western's take over offer refused by the smaller company.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1846</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/S/South_Wales_Railway/">South Wales Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> to lease the <a href="/companies/S/South_Wales_Railway/">South Wales Railway</a> at 5%, if <a href="/companies/S/South_Wales_Railway/">South Wales Railway</a> completed to <a href="/locations/F/Fishguard/">Fishguard</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>16/07/1846</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/W/Waterford,_Wexford,_Wicklow_and_Dublin_Railway/">Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin Railway</a><br>Act passed. The Act allows the company to lease the <a href="/companies/D/Dublin_and_Kingstown_Railway/">Dublin and Kingstown Railway</a>. The line is <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> (England) supported. (Known as the 'Three W's.)</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>30/04/1849</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/B/Bristol_and_Exeter_Railway/">Bristol and Exeter Railway</a><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Great Westerns lease expires</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>08/10/1849</td><td style='border-top: none;'>Windsor Branch (<a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>)<br><a href="/locations/S/Slough/">Slough</a> to <span style="color:#600">Windsor</span> and the west curve at Slough opened.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1850</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Starts to acquire coking coal, for locomotive coal coke ovens, from <span style="color:#600">Great Western Colliery</span> on the <span style="color:#600">Dinas Branch (Taff Vale Railway)</span>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1854</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/S/Shrewsbury_and_Chester_Railway/">Shrewsbury and Chester Railway</a><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br><a href="/companies/S/Shrewsbury_and_Chester_Railway/">Shrewsbury and Chester Railway</a> merged into the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1854</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/O/Oxford,_Worcester_and_Wolverhampton_Railway/">Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway</a><br><a href="/locations/W/Wolverhampton_Low_Level/">Wolverhampton Low Level</a> station opened by the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>16/01/1854</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br><a href="/locations/P/Paddington/">Paddington</a> New station, departure side, opened.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>29/05/1854</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br><a href="/locations/P/Paddington/">Paddington</a> New station, arrival side, opened.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1860</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Buys the <span style="color:#600">Cilely Colliery</span> near <a href="/locations/T/Tonyrefail/">Tonyrefail</a> and the <a href="/companies/E/Ely_Valley_Railway/">Ely Valley Railway</a>. (1860s).</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>02/08/1860</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/E/Ely_Valley_Railway/">Ely Valley Railway</a><br>Broad gauge line opened from <a href="/locations/L/Llantrisant/">Llantrisant</a> on the <a href="/companies/S/South_Wales_Railway/">South Wales Railway</a>. The line is worked by the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>31/12/1860</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/R/Railway_Clearing_House/">Railway Clearing House</a><br>By this date, <a href="/companies/C/Carlisle_and_Port_Carlisle_Railway_and_Dock/">Carlisle and Port Carlisle Railway and Dock</a>, <a href="/companies/B/Bradford,_Wakefield_and_Leeds_Railway/">Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/C/Carlisle_and_Silloth_Bay_Railway_and_Dock/">Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock</a>, <a href="/companies/C/Coleford,_Monmouth,_Usk_and_Pontypool_Railway/">Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/D/Darlington_and_Barnard_Castle_Railway/">Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/G/Glasgow,_Dumbarton_and_Helensburgh_Railway/">Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/G/Great_North_of_Scotland_Railway/">Great North of Scotland Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/H/Hertford_and_Welwyn_Junction_Railway/">Hertford and Welwyn Junction Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/I/Inverness_and_Aberdeen_Junction_Railway/">Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/L/Luton,_Dunstable_and_Welwyn_Junction_Railway/">Luton, Dunstable and Welwyn Junction Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/N/North_Yorkshire_and_Cleveland_Railway/">North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/R/Rhymney_Railway/">Rhymney Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/S/South_Wales_Railway/">South Wales Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/S/Stamford_and_Essendine_Railway/">Stamford and Essendine Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/T/Taff_Vale_Railway/">Taff Vale Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/V/Vale_of_Clywd_Railway/">Vale of Clywd Railway</a> and <a href="/companies/W/Warrington_and_Stockport_Railway/">Warrington and Stockport Railway</a> join.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1861</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/E/Ely_Valley_Railway/">Ely Valley Railway</a><br><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> takes a 999 year lease of the line.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>07/06/1861</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/L/Llantrissant_and_Taff_Vale_Junction_Railway/">Llantrissant and Taff Vale Junction Railway</a><br>Act passed for this <a href="/companies/T/Taff_Vale_Railway/">Taff Vale Railway</a> backed line. The line was promoted to stop expansion eastwards of the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> backed schemes from <a href="/locations/L/Llantrisant/">Llantrisant</a>. The line ran from <a href="/locations/L/Llantrisant_Branch_Junction/">Llantrisant Branch Junction</a>, <a href="/companies/T/Treforest/">Treforest</a>, to meet the <span style="color:#600">Mwyndy Branch (Ely Valley Railway)</span> at <span style="color:#600">Maesaraul</span>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/10/1861</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Third rail laid into London <a href="/locations/P/Paddington/">Paddington</a> allowing standard gauge trains to enter the station.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/07/1862</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/S/Shrewsbury_and_Hereford_Railway/">Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway</a><br>Leased jointly by the <a href="/companies/L/London_and_North_Western_Railway/">London and North Western Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/W/West_Midland_Railway/">West Midland Railway</a> and <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /06/1863</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/C/Cowbridge_Railway/">Cowbridge Railway</a><br>Agreement with the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> to join <a href="/companies/S/South_Wales_Railway/">South Wales Railway</a> at <a href="/locations/L/Llantrisant/">Llantrisant</a> rather than run to <span style="color:#600">Maesaraul</span>. Third rail laid from <a href="/locations/L/Llantrisant/">Llantrisant</a> to <a href="/locations/M/Maesaraul_Junction/">Maesaraul Junction</a> along the <span style="color:#600">Mwyndy Branch (Ely Valley Railway)</span>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>13/07/1863</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/W/West_Midland_Railway/">West Midland Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br><a href="/companies/W/West_Midland_Railway/">West Midland Railway</a> merged with <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/08/1863</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/S/South_Wales_Railway/">South Wales Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br><a href="/companies/S/South_Wales_Railway/">South Wales Railway</a> amalgamated with the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/02/1865</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/V/Vale_of_Neath_Railway/">Vale of Neath Railway</a><br><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> works the line as part of its network.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1871</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/R/Rhymney_Railway/">Rhymney Railway</a><br>Connection made between the <a href="/companies/R/Rhymney_Railway/">Rhymney Railway</a> (at south facing <span style="color:#600">Penalltau Branch Junction</span>) to a west facing junction on the <a href="/companies/T/Taff_Vale_Extension/">Taff Vale Extension</a>. This gave access to the line as far west as <a href="/locations/M/Middle_Duffryn_Junction/">Middle Duffryn Junction</a> and also the <a href="/companies/T/Taff_Bargoed_Joint_Line/">Taff Bargoed Joint Line</a> and <a href="/companies/Q/Quakers_Yard_and_Merthyr_Joint_Railway/">Quakers Yard and Merthyr Joint Railway</a> both of which were jointly owned by the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> and the <a href="/companies/R/Rhymney_Railway/">Rhymney Railway</a> to compete with the <a href="/companies/T/Taff_Vale_Railway/">Taff Vale Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1872</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/S/Swansea_Canal/">Swansea Canal</a><br>Bought by the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1872</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Takes over the steamer service from <a href="/locations/N/Neyland/">Neyland</a> to <a href="/locations/W/Waterford/">Waterford</a> from <span style="color:#600">Ford and Jackson</span>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/08/1875</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/M/Monmouthshire_Canal_Tramway/">Monmouthshire Canal Tramway</a>, <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>The <span style="color:#600">Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company</span> gives the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> running rights over their system.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/01/1876</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/B/Bristol_and_Exeter_Railway/">Bristol and Exeter Railway</a><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Great Western leases line</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/08/1876</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/B/Bristol_and_Exeter_Railway/">Bristol and Exeter Railway</a><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Great Western absorbs the Bristol and Exeter.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1877</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/B/Brynmawr_and_Blaenavon_Railway/">Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway</a><br>Extended south to <a href="/locations/A/Abersychan_and_Talywain/">Abersychan and Talywain</a> station and <a href="/locations/V/Varteg_Hill_Colliery/">Varteg Hill Colliery</a>. A branch from <a href="/locations/G/Garndiffaith_Junction/">Garndiffaith Junction</a> ran to <a href="/locations/G/Golynos_Junction/">Golynos Junction</a> on the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>'s <span style="color:#600">Cwmffrwd Branch</span>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1877</td><td style='border-top: none;'><span style="color:#600">Halls Tramway</span><br>Leased by the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/08/1877</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/T/Taff_Vale_Railway/">Taff Vale Railway</a><br>Passenger trains transferred from <span style="color:#600">Merthyr Plymouth Street</span> to <span style="color:#600">Merthyr High Street</span>. Connection from <a href="/locations/B/Brandy_Bridge_Junction/">Brandy Bridge Junction</a> to <a href="/locations/M/Mardy_Junction/">Mardy Junction</a> (<a href="/companies/V/Vale_of_Neath_Railway/">Vale of Neath Railway</a>) opened. The connection was joint <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> and <a href="/companies/T/Taff_Vale_Railway/">Taff Vale Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1878</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/P/Pontypool,_Caerleon_and_Newport_Railway/">Pontypool, Caerleon and Newport Railway</a><br>Connection made from <a href="/locations/L/Llantarnam_Junction/">Llantarnam Junction</a> to <a href="/locations/C/Cwmbran_Junction/">Cwmbran Junction</a> on the <span style="color:#600">Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company</span> line. <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> trains divert to main <a href="/locations/N/Newport/">Newport</a> station.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1878</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/S/St_Ives_Branch_West_Cornwall_Railway/">St Ives Branch (West Cornwall Railway)</a><br> <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br><a href="/companies/S/St_Ives_Branch_West_Cornwall_Railway/">St Ives Branch (West Cornwall Railway)</a> part of <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/01/1878</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/E/East_Somerset_Railway/">East Somerset Railway</a><a href="/companies/C/Cheddar_Valley_and_Yatton_Railway_Bristol_and_Exeter_Railway/">Cheddar Valley and Yatton Railway (Bristol and Exeter Railway)</a><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>The <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> starts to run passenger trains from the <a href="/locations/C/Cheddar/">Cheddar</a> line through the <a href="/companies/S/Somerset_and_Dorset_Railway/">Somerset and Dorset Railway</a>'s <a href="/locations/W/Wells/">Wells</a> station to <a href="/locations/W/Witham/">Witham</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/05/1878</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/B/Brynmawr_and_Blaenavon_Railway/">Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway</a><br>Extension to <a href="/locations/A/Abersychan_and_Talywain/">Abersychan and Talywain</a> opened to passengers. Track in the station was jointly owned by the <a href="/companies/L/London_and_North_Western_Railway/">London and North Western Railway</a> and the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> as the line met its <span style="color:#600">Talwain Branch</span> here.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1880</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/E/Ely_and_Clydach_Valleys_Railway/">Ely and Clydach Valleys Railway</a><br>Merged into the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>02/04/1880</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/C/Culm_Valley_Light_Railway/">Culm Valley Light Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Line sold to the Great Western.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/08/1880</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/M/Monmouthshire_Canal_Tramway/">Monmouthshire Canal Tramway</a><br> <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Act passed for merging the Monmouthshire into the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>09/05/1881</td><td style='border-top: none;'><span style="color:#600">Morriston Branch</span> (<a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>)<br>Opened from Hafod Junction to Morriston.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1882</td><td style='border-top: none;'><span style="color:#600">Moss Valley Branch</span> (<a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>)<br>Line opened from Moss to Moss Valley Junction</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>14/09/1882</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/C/Cardiff_Riverside_Branch_Great_Western_Railway/">Cardiff Riverside Branch (Great Western Railway)</a><br>Opened by the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>07/07/1884</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/P/Pontypridd,_Caerphilly_and_Newport_Railway/">Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway</a><br>First attempt to open new route. Train departs <a href="/locations/P/Pontypridd/">Pontypridd</a> but is blocked by the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> at <a href="/locations/B/Bassaleg_Junction/">Bassaleg Junction</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/05/1885</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/E/Exe_Valley_Railway/">Exe Valley Railway</a> (<a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>)<br>Line opened by the Great Western. Built to standard gauge.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>09/11/1885</td><td style='border-top: none;'>Abbotsbury Branch (<a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>)<br>Abbotsbury opened</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1886</td><td style='border-top: none;'>Severn Tunnel (<a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>)<br>Opened</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>22/03/1886</td><td style='border-top: none;'><span style="color:#600">Llynvi Valley Extension</span> (<a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>)<br>Abergwynfi opened</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /04/1886</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/P/Pontypridd,_Caerphilly_and_Newport_Railway/">Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway</a><br>Owned section of track through <span style="color:#600">Park Mile</span> is opened to <span style="color:#600">West Mendalgief Junction</span>. Route authorised to east of existing lines, but is swapped with <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> for use of original westernmost route. <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> moves sideways onto new tracks.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/04/1886</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/Q/Quakers_Yard_and_Merthyr_Joint_Railway_Great_Western_Railway_and_Rhymney_Railway/">Quakers Yard and Merthyr Joint Railway (Great Western Railway and Rhymney Railway)</a><br>Opened. The line connected to the <a href="/companies/C/Crawshays_Private_Railway/">Crawshays Private Railway</a> and the <a href="/companies/V/Vale_of_Neath_Railway/">Vale of Neath Railway</a> at <span style="color:#600">Merthyr</span>. Joint <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> and <a href="/companies/R/Rhymney_Railway/">Rhymney Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1889</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/C/Cornwall_Railway/">Cornwall Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br><a href="/companies/C/Cornwall_Railway/">Cornwall Railway</a> absorbed by the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>28/06/1892</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/E/East_Usk_Branch_Great_Western_Railway/">East Usk Branch (Great Western Railway)</a><br>Powers to build East Usk Branch taken over by <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1894</td><td style='border-top: none;'><span style="color:#600">Cardiff Riverside Branch</span> (<a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>)<br>Converted for passenger use.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1897</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/M/Minehead_Railway/">Minehead Railway</a> <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br><a href="/companies/M/Minehead_Railway/">Minehead Railway</a> absorbed by the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1898</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/F/Fishguard_and_Rosslare_Railways_and_Harbours/">Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours</a><br>Absorbed by <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>. (See also <a href="/companies/F/Fishguard_and_Rosslare_Railways_and_Harbours_Ireland/">Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours [Ireland]</a>.)</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1898</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/N/New_Ross_and_Waterford_Line_Dublin,_Wicklow_and_Wexford_Railway/">New Ross and Waterford Line (Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway)</a> <br>Support of the <a href="/companies/F/Fishguard_and_Rosslare_Railways_and_Harbours/">Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours</a> withdrawn when absortbed by the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>. (See also <a href="/companies/F/Fishguard_and_Rosslare_Railways_and_Harbours_Ireland/">Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours [Ireland]</a>.)</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1898</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/H/Helston_Railway/">Helston Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br><a href="/companies/H/Helston_Railway/">Helston Railway</a> absorbed by <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/01/1899</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Takes over the <a href="/companies/P/Pontypridd,_Caerphilly_and_Newport_Railway/">Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway</a>'s <a href="/locations/N/Newport/">Newport</a> to <a href="/locations/P/Pontypridd/">Pontypridd</a> passenger service.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1900</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/P/Penllwyn_Tramway/">Penllwyn Tramway</a>, <a href="/companies/L/London_and_North_Western_Railway/">London and North Western Railway</a><br>A new spur, west of <a href="/locations/N/Nine_Mile_Point/">Nine Mile Point</a>, is opened to the <a href="/companies/P/Penllwyn_Tramway/">Penllwyn Tramway</a> by the owners, the <a href="/companies/L/London_and_North_Western_Railway/">London and North Western Railway</a> to give access to <a href="/companies/N/Nine_Mile_Point_Colliery/">Nine Mile Point Colliery</a>. Formerly this tramway was accessible by a point west of <a href="/locations/N/Nine_Mile_Point/">Nine Mile Point</a> and thus in <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> territory.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1901</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/D/Devon_and_Somerset_Railway/">Devon and Somerset Railway</a><BR><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Devon and Somerset Railway absorbed by the Great Western Railway.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>26/07/1901</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/B/Bridport_Railway/">Bridport Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/W/West_Bay_Extension_Bridport_Railway/">West Bay Extension (Bridport Railway)</a><br> <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Absorption of the <a href="/companies/B/Bridport_Railway/">Bridport Railway</a> by the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> confirmed by Act of Parliament.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>31/07/1902</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/B/Brynmawr_and_Western_Valleys_Railway/">Brynmawr and Western Valleys Railway</a><br>Line taken over jointly by the <a href="/companies/L/London_and_North_Western_Railway/">London and North Western Railway</a> and the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> as the <span style="color:#600">Nantyglo and Blaina Iron Company</span> were asking too high a price to buy their private <a href="/companies/N/Nantyglo_Iron_Works/">Nantyglo Iron Works</a> to <a href="/locations/B/Brynmawr/">Brynmawr</a> railway.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1903</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/E/Ely_Valley_Railway/">Ely Valley Railway</a><br>Merged into the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>05/06/1905</td><td style='border-top: none;'>~<a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Aberderfyn Halt opened</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1906</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/C/Cork_City_Railways/">Cork City Railways</a><br>Incorporated. Supported by the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1911</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>A Cwmtillery to Abertillery Milnes-Daimler bus service starts.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>22/03/1915</td><td style='border-top: none;'>~<a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Aberderfyn Halt closed</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1919</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Extends <a href="/locations/N/Newport/">Newport</a> to <a href="/locations/P/Pontypridd/">Pontypridd</a> passenger service to <span style="color:#600">Merthyr</span>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1921</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/A/Alexandra_Newport_and_South_Wales_Docks_and_Railway/">Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway</a> <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br><a href="/companies/A/Alexandra_Newport_and_South_Wales_Docks_and_Railway/">Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway</a> merged with <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1921</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/V/Vale_of_Glamorgan_Railway/">Vale of Glamorgan Railway</a><br>Merged with <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>19/08/1921</td><td style='border-top: none;'>Railways Act<br>Act passed to create <a href="/companies/L/London,_Midland_and_Scottish_Railway/">London, Midland and Scottish Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/L/London_and_North_Eastern_Railway/">London and North Eastern Railway</a>, <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> and <a href="/companies/S/Southern_Railway/">Southern Railway</a> by grouping smaller companies into bigger units. This was due to financial problems the railway companies were having in the aftermath of the <span style="color:#600">Great War</span>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1922</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/W/West_Somerset_Railway/">West Somerset Railway</a> <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>West Somerset Railway absorbed by the Great Western.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>10/07/1922</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/P/Pontypridd,_Caerphilly_and_Newport_Railway/">Pontypridd, Caerphilly and Newport Railway</a><br><span style="color:#600">Tram Road Motor Halt</span>, <a href="/locations/P/Pontypridd/">Pontypridd</a>, closed when the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> arranges for <a href="/locations/N/Newport/">Newport</a> trains to use the <a href="/companies/T/Taff_Vale_Railway/">Taff Vale Railway</a>'s <a href="/locations/P/Pontypridd/">Pontypridd</a> station.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1923</td><td style='border-top: none;'><span style="color:#600">Didcot Newbury and Southampton Railway</span><BR><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Junction Railway merged with the Great Western Railway.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1923</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/C/Cork_City_Railways/">Cork City Railways</a><br><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> transfers its share for free to the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Southern_and_Western_Railway/">Great Southern and Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>18/07/1923</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/S/Swansea_Harbour_Trustees/">Swansea Harbour Trustees</a><br>Vested in the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1926</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Act passed to allow closure of the <a href="/companies/B/Barry_Dock_and_Railways/">Barry Dock and Railways</a> three miles of line from <span style="color:#600">Phenrhos Lower Junction</span> and <span style="color:#600">Duffryn Isaf</span> (the <span style="color:#600">Rhymney Valley Branch</span>). The <span style="color:#600">Penrhos Viaduct</span>, <span style="color:#600">Penyrhoel Viaduct</span> and <a href="/locations/L/Llanbradach_Viaduct/">Llanbradach Viaduct</a> were to be demolished.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1928</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/T/Taff_Vale_Extension/">Taff Vale Extension</a><br><a href="/locations/C/Crumlin_Viaduct/">Crumlin Viaduct</a> re-plated by the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1928</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Swansea North Dock closed.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1930</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Connection made between <a href="/companies/B/Barry_Dock_and_Railways/">Barry Dock and Railways</a> (a north facing junction, just north of <a href="/locations/T/Tonteg_Junction/">Tonteg Junction</a>) to the <a href="/companies/L/Llantrissant_and_Taff_Vale_Junction_Railway/">Llantrissant and Taff Vale Junction Railway</a> at a south facing junction just to the east of <a href="/locations/T/Tonteg_Viaduct/">Tonteg Viaduct</a>. The former <a href="/companies/L/Llantrissant_and_Taff_Vale_Junction_Railway/">Llantrissant and Taff Vale Junction Railway</a> line between the junction just east on <a href="/locations/T/Tonteg_Viaduct/">Tonteg Viaduct</a> and <span style="color:#600">Llantrissant Branch Junction</span> is closed.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1930</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/L/Llancaiach_Branch_Taff_Vale_Railway/">Llancaiach Branch (Taff Vale Railway)</a><br>Railway between <a href="/locations/N/Nelson/">Nelson</a> station and <a href="/locations/N/Nelson_and_Llancaiach/">Nelson and Llancaiach</a> on the <a href="/companies/T/Taff_Vale_Extension/">Taff Vale Extension</a> to be improved by the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> to take passengers.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1934</td><td style='border-top: none;'><span style="color:#600">Railway Air Services</span><br> <a href="/companies/L/London,_Midland_and_Scottish_Railway/">London, Midland and Scottish Railway</a><a href="/companies/L/London_and_North_Eastern_Railway/">London and North Eastern Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/S/Southern_Railway/">Southern Railway</a><br> <span style="color:#600">Imperial Airways</span><br>Railway Air Services formed by the LMS, LNER, GWR, SR and Imperial Airways. Airport opened at <span style="color:#600">Renfrew Airport</span>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/10/1934</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/S/Somerset_and_Dorset_Railway/">Somerset and Dorset Railway</a><BR><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>The Great Western makes use of the Somerset and Dorset Railways Wells station (Priory Road)</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>19/05/1940</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/W/Weston,_Clevedon_and_Portishead_Railway/">Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway</a><br>The line is closed. It was used by the <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> briefly for storing spare stock.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/01/1948</td><td style='border-top: none;'><span style="color:#600">British Railways</span> <a href="/companies/F/Forth_Bridge_Railway/">Forth Bridge Railway</a> <a href="/companies/L/London,_Midland_and_Scottish_Railway/">London, Midland and Scottish Railway</a> <a href="/companies/L/London_and_North_Eastern_Railway/">London and North Eastern Railway</a> <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> <a href="/companies/S/Southern_Railway/">Southern Railway</a><br>Britains railways are nationalised.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>01/12/1952</td><td style='border-top: none;'>Abbotsbury Branch (<a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>)<br>Abbotsbury closed</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>22/11/1954</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/L/London_and_North_Western_Railway_South_Wales/">London and North Western Railway South Wales</a><br>Freight services transferred to <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> routes.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>20/11/1955</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>11 are killed when an excursion train enters a goods loop too quickly at <a href="/locations/D/Didcot/">Didcot</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>13/06/1960</td><td style='border-top: none;'><span style="color:#600">Llynvi Valley Extension</span> (<a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>)<br>Abergwynfi closed</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>16/03/1964</td><td style='border-top: none;'><span style="color:#600">Cardiff Riverside Branch</span> (<a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>)<br>Closed excluding Currans Siding.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>30/11/1966</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/E/Exe_Valley_Railway/">Exe Valley Railway</a> (<a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>)<br>Thorverton to Stoke Canon closed.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>  /  /1967</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/N/North_Cornwall_Railway/">North Cornwall Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/B/Bodmin_and_Wadebridge_Railway/">Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/B/Bodmin_Branch_Great_Western_Railway/">Bodmin Branch (Great Western Railway)</a><br><a href="/locations/P/Padstow/">Padstow</a> to <a href="/locations/B/Bodmin_North/">Bodmin North</a> to <a href="/locations/B/Bodmin_Road/">Bodmin Road</a> closed to passengers. On the former <a href="/companies/L/London_and_South_Western_Railway/">London and South Western Railway</a> <a href="/locations/P/Padstow/">Padstow</a>, <a href="/locations/W/Wadebridge_2nd/">Wadebridge [2nd]</a>, <a href="/locations/G/Grogley_Halt/">Grogley Halt</a>, <a href="/locations/N/Nanstallon_Halt/">Nanstallon Halt</a>, <a href="/locations/B/Boscarne_Junction/">Boscarne Junction</a>, <a href="/locations/D/Dunmere_Halt/">Dunmere Halt</a>, <a href="/locations/B/Bodmin_North/">Bodmin North</a> closed. On the former <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> <a href="/locations/B/Bodmin_General/">Bodmin General</a> closed. <a href="/locations/P/Padstow/">Padstow</a> to <a href="/locations/W/Wadebridge_1st/">Wadebridge [1st]</a> and <a href="/locations/B/Bodmin_North/">Bodmin North</a> to <a href="/locations/D/Dunmere_Junction/">Dunmere Junction</a> closed completely.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>08/07/1968</td><td style='border-top: none;'><span style="color:#600">Cardiff Riverside Branch</span> (<a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>)<br>Curran's Siding closed.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>19/09/1997</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>7 people killed at Southall as a result of a collision between a <a href="/companies/F/First_Great_Western/">First Great Western</a> express train and a freight train. Following the crash 43011 is withdrawn, the first <a href="/locations/H/HST/">HST</a> power car to be withdrawn.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>05/10/1999</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>31 people killed at Ladbroke Grove when a local train over-runs a signal and crashes into a First Great Western express train.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>06/11/2004</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Car stopped on <span style="color:#600">Uffton Level Crossing</span> leads to the death of six on board the train and injury to 130 when struck by a <a href="/locations/H/HST/">HST</a> which derailed.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>14/11/2014</td><td style='border-top: none;'><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br>Electrification begins near <a href="/locations/R/Reading/">Reading</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>16/10/2017</td><td style='border-top: none;'><span style="color:#600">Hitachi Rail Europe</span><br>First <span style="color:#600">Class 800</span> enters service with <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>27/02/2018</td><td style='border-top: none;'><span style="color:#600">Hitachi Rail Europe</span><br>The first <span style="color:#600">Class 800</span> arrived at the <span style="color:#600">Inverness TMD</span> depot for the first time ahead of its introduction later in 2018. This was <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> liveried Hitachi <span style="color:#600">Class 800</span> set number 800303.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>28/12/2018</td><td style='border-top: none;'><span style="color:#600">Hitachi Rail Europe</span><br>Final <span style="color:#600">Class 800</span> of a batch of 36 enters traffic with <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a>.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>27/04/2021</td><td style='border-top: none;'><span style="color:#600">Hitachi Rail Europe</span><br><span style="color:#600">Class 800</span>s withdrawn after cracks were discovered during routine maintenance of two <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> trains.</td></tr><tr><td style='border-top: none;'>08/05/2021</td><td style='border-top: none;'><span style="color:#600">Hitachi Rail Europe</span><br>Hairline cracks found in <span style="color:#600">Class 800</span>s operated by <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a> and <span style="color:#600">London North Eastern Railway</span> resulting in many cancellations.</td></tr></table></div><div class='row'><h4 id="locs">Locations along the line</h4><p>These locations are along the line.</p><div class="row"><div><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Paddington"></a><a href="/locations/P/Paddington"><h4>Paddington</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/P/Paddington" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/84/540" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/84000/84540.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Two class 800s at Paddington on 13th April 2019. On the right is 800307 waiting to depart with the 13.22 service to Great Malvern and which a friend ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 13/04/2019</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/78/321" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/78000/78321.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>345061 (left) and 345060 in the former Metropolitan Railway Bishops Road station, now an extension of Paddington, on 3rd September 2020. 061 was not ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 03/09/2021</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/77/357" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/77000/77357.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>47526 at Paddington in 1991. The former D1109 was previously named 'Northumbria' but denamed脗聽 in June 1991. I believe this Paddington visit may ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Crinan_Dunbar">Crinan Dunbar</a> 18/08/1991</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/78/193" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/78000/78193.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>50031 'Hood' approaching Paddington in the Summer of 1984. The vehicle in front of the rake of MkI coaches is a GUV bogie parcels van. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Crinan_Dunbar">Crinan Dunbar</a> /07/1984</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 73 images. <a href="/locations/P/Paddington" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Paddington_1st"></a><a href="/locations/P/Paddington_1st"><h4>Paddington [1st]</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/P/Paddington_1st" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Westbourne_Park"></a><a href="/locations/W/Westbourne_Park"><h4>Westbourne Park</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/W/Westbourne_Park" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/83/316" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/83000/83316.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>View of Westbourne Park station, from the ex-12.35 Heathrow Terminal 4 to Abbey Wood Elizabeth Line train, on Sunday, 6th November 2022. The ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 06/11/2022</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">1 of 1 images. </div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Ladbroke_Grove_Junction"></a><a href="/locations/L/Ladbroke_Grove_Junction"><h4>Ladbroke Grove Junction</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/L/Ladbroke_Grove_Junction" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Old_Oak_Common_East_Junction"></a><a href="/locations/O/Old_Oak_Common_East_Junction"><h4>Old Oak Common East Junction</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/O/Old_Oak_Common_East_Junction" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/O/Old_Oak_Common_East_Junction_to_North_Pole_Junction_Great_Western_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Old Oak Common East Junction to North Pole Junction (Great Western Railway)</a><br></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Old_Oak_Common_West_Junction"></a><a href="/locations/O/Old_Oak_Common_West_Junction"><h4>Old Oak Common West Junction</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/O/Old_Oak_Common_West_Junction" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/O/Old_Oak_Common_to_Northold_Junction_Great_Western_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Old Oak Common to Northold Junction (Great Western Railway)</a><br></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Acton_Main_Line"></a><a href="/locations/A/Acton_Main_Line"><h4>Acton Main Line</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/A/Acton_Main_Line" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/76/982" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/76000/76982.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>345002, with a TfL Rail service to Paddington, arriving at its penultimate stop at Acton Main Line on 22nd May 2021. This will cease to be the ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 22/05/2021</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/80/206" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80206.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>66168 on siding to the west of Acton Main Line station, seen here from passing UK Railtours' excursion from Stevenage to Hereford on the morning of ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 26/02/2022</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/77/218" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/77000/77218.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Acton Main Line, originally opened in 1868, looking east towards Paddington, on 22nd May 2021. After a long delay, the new footbridge and ticket hall, ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 22/05/2021</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/85/679" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/85000/85679.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>37703 on a 0952 Neasden to Old Oak Common engineers' service, on the goods lines at Acton, on 9th May 1995. 37703 is still in service, most recently ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Roger_Geach">Roger Geach</a> 09/05/1995</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 9 images. <a href="/locations/A/Acton_Main_Line" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Ealing_Broadway"></a><a href="/locations/E/Ealing_Broadway"><h4>Ealing Broadway</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/E/Ealing_Broadway" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/E/Ealing_and_Shepherd^s_Bush_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Ealing and Shepherd^s Bush Railway</a><br><a href="/companies/E/Ealing_Broadway_Branch_Metropolitan_District_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Ealing Broadway Branch (Metropolitan District Railway)</a><br></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/80/72" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80072.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>View from a Paddington to Heathrow Terminal 4 service, approaching Ealing Broadway, as a train of LUL S7 stock departs with a District Line train to ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 09/02/2019</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/75/410" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/75000/75410.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>66118 passing Ealing Broadway with a westbound freight, with LUL 1992 Central Line train on left, on 5th September 2015. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 05/09/2015</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/76/980" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/76000/76980.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>360203, with a Heathrow Connect service to London Paddington, at Ealing Broadway early on the morning of 5th September 2015. On the right is a Central ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 05/09/2015</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/83/427" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/83000/83427.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>LU 1992 stock at the Central Line west London terminus of Ealing Broadway, about to depart east all the way to Hainault via Newbury Park. on the ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 12/11/2022</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 30 images. <a href="/locations/E/Ealing_Broadway" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="West_Ealing"></a><a href="/locations/W/West_Ealing"><h4>West Ealing</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/W/West_Ealing" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/G/Greenford_Loop_Great_Western_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Greenford Loop (Great Western Railway)</a><br></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/80/108" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80108.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>360202, from Paddington to Heathrow Terminal 4, departing from rebuilt West Ealing on 9th February 2019. This line opened on 4th June 1838 but the ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 09/02/2019</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/75/430" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/75000/75430.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Now that passengers from the Greenford branch have to change at West Ealing, the least the rail operators can do is make sure the 'connecting' service ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 09/02/2019</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/80/858" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80858.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Bombardier Aventra EMU 345013, arriving at West Ealing on a working to Paddington, on 9th February 2019. On the right is the new bay platform for ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 09/02/2019</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/67/658" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/67000/67658.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>387153 from London Paddington passing West Ealing station, on the GWR main line in west London, on 9th February 2019. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 09/02/2019</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 5 images. <a href="/locations/W/West_Ealing" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Hanwell"></a><a href="/locations/H/Hanwell"><h4>Hanwell</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/H/Hanwell" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/G/Greenford_Loop_Great_Western_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Greenford Loop (Great Western Railway)</a><br></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/80/572" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80572.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>387155, on a down service from Paddington, passing Hanwell station, west London, at speed on Saturday, 9th February 2019. Minutes later, this train ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 09/02/2019</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/80/95" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80095.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Taken with a zoom lens, 345012 has just passed through Hanwell and is heading east as it speeds its way over the last seven and a bit miles of the GWR ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 09/02/2019</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/80/91" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80091.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Hanwell, on the GWR main line in west London, looking west from the up platform on 9th February 2019. The period 'subway' sign is a nice feature. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 09/02/2019</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/80/70" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80070.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Hanwell, looking east towards Paddington, on 9th February 2019. The main up and down fast lines are to the right of the fence, blocking off access to ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 09/02/2019</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 4 images. </div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Southall"></a><a href="/locations/S/Southall"><h4>Southall</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/S/Southall" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_and_Brentford_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Great Western and Brentford Railway</a><br></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/80/900" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80900.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>66520 heading east through Southall, on the GWR main line in west London, on Friday, 3rd September 2021. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 03/09/2021</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/78/567" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/78000/78567.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>345040, with a semi-fast service from Paddington to Reading, departing from Southall on 3rd September 2021. I must have been through this station many ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 03/09/2021</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/65/66" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/65000/65066.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>A 387 leaves Southall station in full sun. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Rod_Crawford">Rod Crawford</a> 26/07/2018</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/58/947" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/58000/58947.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Platform extension work in progress at Southall in April 2017. Quick grabshot from one of the Class 387 EMUs which currently have to use Selective ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Colin_McDonald">Colin McDonald</a> 05/04/2017</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 18 images. <a href="/locations/S/Southall" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Hayes_and_Harlington"></a><a href="/locations/H/Hayes_and_Harlington"><h4>Hayes and Harlington</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/H/Hayes_and_Harlington" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/84/101" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/84000/84101.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>345016, on short working to Maidenhead, arriving at Hayes & Harlington at dusk on 1st January 2023. Many Elizabeth Line trains seem to terminate ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 01/01/2023</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/58/922" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/58000/58922.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Platform widening and extension work in progress at Hayes & Harlington platforms 4 and 5 as part of the Crossrail project.<br> ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Colin_McDonald">Colin McDonald</a> 05/04/2017</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/58/913" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/58000/58913.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>One of the 110mph GWR Class 387 EMUs which were introduced in September 2016 on Hayes & Harlington to London Paddington services waits in the recently ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Colin_McDonald">Colin McDonald</a> 05/04/2017</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/45/163" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/45000/45163.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Grab shot from a passing train on 23 October showing EWS liveried 66179 on a rake of Construction Sector aggregate hopper wagons being unloaded at ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Pesterfield">David Pesterfield</a> 23/10/2013</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 4 images. </div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="West_Drayton"></a><a href="/locations/W/West_Drayton"><h4>West Drayton</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/W/West_Drayton" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/88/687" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/88000/88687.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Surviving Victorian building at west end of up local platform, now the Elizabeth Line, at West Drayton on New Year's Day 2024. Once the junction for ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 01/01/2024</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/88/682" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/88000/88682.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Zoom lens view from the station footbridge at West Drayton, looking east, with GWR class 800 on an up service to Paddington, speeding past on the fast ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 01/01/2024</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/88/604" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/88000/88604.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Surviving Victorian buildings at the west end of the obsolete westbound fast tracks platform at West Drayton, on New Year's Day, 2024. The wide space ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 01/01/2024</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/37/244" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/37000/37244.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>A Brush Type 4 speeds through West Drayton in 1980 with a Bristol - Paddington express. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/John_Furnevel">John Furnevel</a> 18/11/1980</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 7 images. <a href="/locations/W/West_Drayton" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Iver"></a><a href="/locations/I/Iver"><h4>Iver</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/I/Iver" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Langley_GWR"></a><a href="/locations/L/Langley_GWR"><h4>Langley [GWR]</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/L/Langley_GWR" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Slough_1st"></a><a href="/locations/S/Slough_1st"><h4>Slough [1st]</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/S/Slough_1st" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Slough"></a><a href="/locations/S/Slough"><h4>Slough</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/S/Slough" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/84/720" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/84000/84720.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>800314, with a westbound fast from Paddington, passing Slough at speed on 13th April 2019. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 13/04/2019</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/84/781" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/84000/84781.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>165117 arriving at Slough from Windsor & Eton Central, on 13th April 2019. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 13/04/2019</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/85/959" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/85000/85959.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>165117 in the bay platform at Slough, just arrived with the one-stop branch shuttle service from Windsor & Eton Central, on 13th April 2019. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 13/04/2019</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/80/546" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80546.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>The main building of the second station at Slough, on the south side westbound platform, seen from The Railway Touring Company's Flying Scotsman ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 05/03/2022</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 10 images. <a href="/locations/S/Slough" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Slough_East_Junction"></a><a href="/locations/S/Slough_East_Junction"><h4>Slough East Junction</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/S/Slough_East_Junction" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/W/Windsor_Branch_Great_Western_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Windsor Branch (Great Western Railway)</a><br></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Slough_West_Junction"></a><a href="/locations/S/Slough_West_Junction"><h4>Slough West Junction</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/S/Slough_West_Junction" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/W/Windsor_Branch_Great_Western_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Windsor Branch (Great Western Railway)</a><br></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Burnham"></a><a href="/locations/B/Burnham"><h4>Burnham</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/B/Burnham" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Taplow"></a><a href="/locations/T/Taplow"><h4>Taplow</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/T/Taplow" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/37/398" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/37000/37398.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Brush Type 4 47143 heads for Paddington at speed in July 1981 taking eight MkI coaches through Taplow on the fast lines. 47143 was withdrawn from ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Mark_Bartlett">Mark Bartlett</a> 18/07/1981</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/39/396" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/39000/39396.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>50044 <I>Exeter</I> hurries a Paddington bound train through Taplow on the Up Slow line in 1981. Thankfully the former D444 was preserved and, over ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Mark_Bartlett">Mark Bartlett</a> 18/07/1981</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/23/912" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/23000/23912.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>A Pressed Steel Class 117 suburban DMU leaves the Up slow line platform at Taplow heading for Paddington in 1981. When these 1st generation units were ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Mark_Bartlett">Mark Bartlett</a> 18/07/1981</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">3 of 3 images. </div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Maidenhead,Maidenhead_and_Taplow,Taplow_1st"></a><a href="/locations/M/Maidenhead,Maidenhead_and_Taplow,Taplow_1st"><h4>Maidenhead,Maidenhead and Taplow,Taplow [1st]</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/M/Maidenhead,Maidenhead_and_Taplow,Taplow_1st" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Maidenhead"></a><a href="/locations/M/Maidenhead"><h4>Maidenhead</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/M/Maidenhead" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/W/Wycombe_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Wycombe Railway</a><br></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/79/765" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/79000/79765.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>A First Great Western service from Paddington to Reading with 3-car 165111 calls at Maidenhead at the start of the evening rush hour on 18 June 2009. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/John_McIntyre">John McIntyre</a> 18/06/2009</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/86/745" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/86000/86745.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>60163 Tornado is seen passing Maidenhead with support coach, en route to St Phillips Marsh depot Bristol, on 6th August 2016. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Roger_Geach">Roger Geach</a> 06/08/2016</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/62/636" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/62000/62636.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>FGW service from Paddington to Oxford calls at Maidenhead on 18 June 2009. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/John_McIntyre">John McIntyre</a> 18/06/2009</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/24/339" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/24000/24339.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>On the GWR main line west of Maidenhead a First Great Western HST heads towards Reading on 18 June 2009. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/John_McIntyre">John McIntyre</a> 18/06/2009</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 5 images. <a href="/locations/M/Maidenhead" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Twyford"></a><a href="/locations/T/Twyford"><h4>Twyford</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/T/Twyford" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/H/Henley_Branch_Great_Western_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Henley Branch (Great Western Railway)</a><br></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/86/665" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/86000/86665.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>166216 arrives at Twyford, change here for the Henley on Thames branch, in 2016. This was before the wires went up but they were approaching and soon ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Roger_Geach">Roger Geach</a> 06/08/2016</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/88/418" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/88000/88418.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>GWR 165119 coming from the Henley branch into the bay platform at Twyford on 13th December 2023. On the other side of this platform is the link to the ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 13/12/2023</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/88/405" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/88000/88405.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Elizabeth Line 345008 running into Twyford past the Henley branch link, heading westbound for Abbey Wood at 1235 hours on 13th December 2023.<br> ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 13/12/2023</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/86/649" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/86000/86649.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>66059, 1244 Theale - Acton service, passing Twyford in 2017. The work on the overhead electification is in progress. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Roger_Geach">Roger Geach</a> 02/06/2017</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 8 images. <a href="/locations/T/Twyford" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Reading"></a><a href="/locations/R/Reading"><h4>Reading</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/R/Reading" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/87/814" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/87000/87814.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>The view at the west end of Reading station which i took to show how much it has changed from Western days in the 1970s. Nothing is left at all. Even ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Roger_Geach">Roger Geach</a> 31/08/2023</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/79/716" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/79000/79716.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>165112 leads 166215 into Reading, on the evening of 18 June 2009, while on a Paddington to Oxford service. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/John_McIntyre">John McIntyre</a> 18/06/2009</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/88/333" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/88000/88333.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>66589 working 6M20 1045 Whatley Quarry to Churchyard sidings, near St Pancras, passing Reading station. The modern bridge which links the platforms ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Roger_Geach">Roger Geach</a> 31/08/2023</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/88/62" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/88000/88062.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>66560 has had a crew change at Reading platform 15 on 31st August 2023. This is 4L36 0810 Wentloog to Felixstowe service that was very well loaded on ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Roger_Geach">Roger Geach</a> 31/08/2023</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 67 images. <a href="/locations/R/Reading" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Tilehurst"></a><a href="/locations/T/Tilehurst"><h4>Tilehurst</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/T/Tilehurst" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/59/906" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/59000/59906.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Flying Scotsman whizzes through Tilehurst with the Cathedrals Express on 13th June 2017. Photo courtesy of Peter Caton. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 13/06/2017</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">1 of 1 images. </div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Pangbourne"></a><a href="/locations/P/Pangbourne"><h4>Pangbourne</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/P/Pangbourne" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/43/267" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/43000/43267.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>The latest freebie on First Great Western HST's: moving maps on seatback screens. It's good to see railways adopting technology used by their ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 18/05/2013</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">1 of 1 images. </div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Goring_Watertroughs"></a><a href="/locations/G/Goring_Watertroughs"><h4>Goring Watertroughs</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/G/Goring_Watertroughs" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Goring_and_Streatley"></a><a href="/locations/G/Goring_and_Streatley"><h4>Goring and Streatley</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/G/Goring_and_Streatley" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/64/315" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/64000/64315.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Platform view north at Goring and Streatley station on 24 May 2002. [Ref query 2 June 2018] ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ian_Dinmore">Ian Dinmore</a> 24/05/2002</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/60/112" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/60000/60112.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>A Virgin CrossCountry Voyager runs through Goring and Streatley in May 2002 heading north west towards Didcot. [Ref query 1657] ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ian_Dinmore">Ian Dinmore</a> 24/05/2002</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">2 of 2 images. </div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Wallingford_Road"></a><a href="/locations/W/Wallingford_Road"><h4>Wallingford Road</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/W/Wallingford_Road" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Cholsey"></a><a href="/locations/C/Cholsey"><h4>Cholsey</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/C/Cholsey" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/W/Wallingford_and_Watlington_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Wallingford and Watlington Railway</a><br></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/75/777" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/75000/75777.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Arriva X-Country 221138, eastbound at Cholsey on the Great Western main line, bound for Reading and probably the south coast on 8 April 2010.<br> ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 08/04/2010</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/37/95" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/37000/37095.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Freightliner 66535 passing eastbound through Cholsey Station on 5 January with a container train. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 05/01/2012</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/33/937" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/33000/33937.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Freightliner 66543 brings an eastbound container train through Cholsey on 21 April 2011. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 21/04/2011</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/28/442" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/28000/28442.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>EWS 66037 takes a freight through Cholsey on 4 April 2010 ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 04/04/2010</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 9 images. <a href="/locations/C/Cholsey" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Didcot_Parkway"></a><a href="/locations/D/Didcot_Parkway"><h4>Didcot Parkway</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>Array</p><a href="/locations/D/Didcot_Parkway" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/D/Didcot,_Newbury_and_Southampton_Junction_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Junction Railway</a><br></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/87/195" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/87000/87195.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>These blue Network Rail water tankers were parked in Didcot's station sidings on 24th August 2023. Why? Who knows?<br> ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 24/08/2023</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/88/388" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/88000/88388.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Freightliner 66413, previously a DRS loco, passing through Didcot's platform 4 with 4L36 from Wentloog to Felixstowe on 13th December 2023. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 13/12/2023</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/87/437" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/87000/87437.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>A Hitachi 800 passing DBC 66044, parked in Didcot station sidings, on 14 September 2023. Recently, a change to the timetables sees these 800s calling ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 14/09/2023</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/83/127" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/83000/83127.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>GBRf 66781 'Darius Cheskin', paused for a crew change in Didcot station and signalled northbound to Oxford and beyond with intermodal 4M18 on 12th ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 12/10/2022</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 290 images. <a href="/locations/D/Didcot_Parkway" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Foxhall_Junction"></a><a href="/locations/F/Foxhall_Junction"><h4>Foxhall Junction</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/F/Foxhall_Junction" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/84/382" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/84000/84382.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>58007 is close to Foxhall Junction, on Didcot's west curve, with the Didcot to Toton empties on 8th February 1992. The train is passing a loaded ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Roger_Geach">Roger Geach</a> 08/02/1992</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">1 of 1 images. </div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Steventon"></a><a href="/locations/S/Steventon"><h4>Steventon</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/S/Steventon" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/77/883" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/77000/77883.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>A westbound HST approaches the site of Steventon station on 22 September 2011. In the background is the bridge carrying the A34 road over the railway ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/John_McIntyre">John McIntyre</a> 22/09/2011</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/35/808" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/35000/35808.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>A First Great Western HST heads for Paddington at speed on 22 September. The train is pssing the site of Steventon station (closed 1964) to the west ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/John_McIntyre">John McIntyre</a> 22/09/2011</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">2 of 2 images. </div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Wantage_Road"></a><a href="/locations/W/Wantage_Road"><h4>Wantage Road</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/W/Wantage_Road" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/80/212" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80212.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Disused up platform of the former Wantage Road station, between Didcot Parkway and Swindon, seen from passing UK Railtours' excursion from Stevenage ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 26/02/2022</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">1 of 1 images. </div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Challow"></a><a href="/locations/C/Challow"><h4>Challow</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/C/Challow" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/82/972" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/82000/82972.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>DB Schenker 66075, west bound from Theale Puma to Robeston in South Wales on 12th October 2022. It is passing the site of Challow station with 6B33, ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 12/10/2022</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/72/158" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/72000/72158.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>DB 66020, stopped in the westbound loop at the site of the defunct Challow station, on 30th January 2020.<br> ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 30/01/2020</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/67/845" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/67000/67845.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>GBRf 66707 stopped in the loop at Challow Station in February 2019. (Pity about the pylon). ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 20/02/2019</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/68/771" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/68000/68771.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>GBRf 66707 'Sir Sam Fay Great Central Railway' and its freight train are stationary in the westbound loop at Challow Station, to the west of Didcot, ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 05/04/2019</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 21 images. <a href="/locations/C/Challow" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Uffington"></a><a href="/locations/U/Uffington"><h4>Uffington</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/U/Uffington" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/F/Faringdon_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Faringdon Railway</a><br></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/82/439" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/82000/82439.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>West Coast Railways usually use 37s or 47s to support steam excursions but they also have two operational BRCW Class 33s and 33025 ventured out with ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 27/08/2022</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/76/611" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/76000/76611.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Spring colours at Uffington as low-geared Freightliner 66601 passes westbound with stone empties from Banbury Reservoir Tarmac to Bristol Freightliner ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 23/04/2021</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/81/308" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/81000/81308.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Just how do you pronounce that? Freightliner (low geared) 66606, westbound from Appleford FHH to Whatley Quarry with empty wagons, passing Uffington ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 03/02/2022</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/86/183" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/86000/86183.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>7029 'Clun Castle' westbound passing Uffington on the GWML, with 1Z10, a special from Birmingham Snow Hill to the West Somerset Railway at Bishops ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 24/06/2023</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 29 images. <a href="/locations/U/Uffington" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Shrivenham"></a><a href="/locations/S/Shrivenham"><h4>Shrivenham</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/S/Shrivenham" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/81/558" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/81000/81558.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>GWR 800013 passing Shrivenham at speed on 11th June 2022. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 11/06/2022</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/81/516" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/81000/81516.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>7029 'Clun Castle' was on a Special from Tyseley to Cardiff and return on 11th June 2022. On the westbound outward journey it was 40 minutes late due ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 11/06/2022</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/85/453" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/85000/85453.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>66501, the first of what grew to be a fleet of over 120 Freightliner 66s, is seen westbound at Woolston, near Shrivenham, with a West Drayton Fry's ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 26/04/2023</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/85/586" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/85000/85586.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Freightliner 66539, westbound at Woolston near Shrivenham on 25th April 2023, with the Oxford Banbury Sidings to East Usk Yard train (6C58) of box ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 25/04/2023</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 23 images. <a href="/locations/S/Shrivenham" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Stratton_Park_Halt"></a><a href="/locations/S/Stratton_Park_Halt"><h4>Stratton Park Halt</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/S/Stratton_Park_Halt" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/85/109" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/85000/85109.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Tail end shot as preserved Hastings DEMU 1001 passes Stratton footbridge with the 'Avon Ambassador' from Hastings to Temple Meads on 25 March 2023.<br> ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 25/03/2023</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">1 of 1 images. </div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Highworth_Junction"></a><a href="/locations/H/Highworth_Junction"><h4>Highworth Junction</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/H/Highworth_Junction" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/S/Swindon_and_Highworth_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Swindon and Highworth Railway</a><br></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/59/243" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/59000/59243.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>66097 westbound approaching Swindon on 6th May 2017 with empty stone wagons heading for Whatley Quarry via Melksham & Westbury. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 05/05/2017</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/59/316" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/59000/59316.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Taken on the eastern outskirts of Swindon, 34052 (aka 34046) & 46100 pass westbound light engine to Bristol as part of the Great Britain Experience. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 05/05/2017</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/59/450" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/59000/59450.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>34052 (aka 34046) & 46100 westbound light engines to Bristol as part of the Great Britain Experience. The line disappearing to the right is the stub ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 05/05/2017</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/59/184" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/59000/59184.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>View west showing a selection of the various plant and equipment located at Highworth Junction GW electrification depot to the east of Swindon on 5 ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 05/05/2017</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 4 images. </div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Swindon"></a><a href="/locations/S/Swindon"><h4>Swindon</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/S/Swindon" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/C/Cheltenham_and_Great_Western_Union_Railway_Great_Western_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway (Great Western Railway)</a><br></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/85/781" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/85000/85781.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>59005 slowly passing through Swindon on 24 May 2023. This is a Merehead Quarries to Royal Wootton Bassett stone train. It parks up in the eastern ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 24/05/2023</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/85/561" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/85000/85561.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2><br> ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 22/04/2023</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/76/292" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/76000/76292.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Freightliner 66957, eastbound through Swindon, with a Wentloog to Felixstowe intermodal service, reporting number 451E, on 22nd March 2021.<br> ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 22/03/2021</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/81/213" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/81000/81213.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>The old 1904 Great Western Railway Reading Library in Swindon in 2022. Many artefacts relating to the GWR are slowly vanishing from Swindon.<br> ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 05/04/2022</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 81 images. <a href="/locations/S/Swindon" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Rushey_Platt_Junction"></a><a href="/locations/R/Rushey_Platt_Junction"><h4>Rushey Platt Junction</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/R/Rushey_Platt_Junction" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Wootton_Bassett_Road"></a><a href="/locations/W/Wootton_Bassett_Road"><h4>Wootton Bassett Road</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/W/Wootton_Bassett_Road" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Wootton_Bassett"></a><a href="/locations/W/Wootton_Bassett"><h4>Wootton Bassett</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/W/Wootton_Bassett" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Wootton_Bassett_Junction"></a><a href="/locations/W/Wootton_Bassett_Junction"><h4>Wootton Bassett Junction</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/W/Wootton_Bassett_Junction" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/S/South_Wales_and_Bristol_Direct_Railway_Great_Western_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">South Wales and Bristol Direct Railway (Great Western Railway)</a><br></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Dauntsey"></a><a href="/locations/D/Dauntsey"><h4>Dauntsey</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/D/Dauntsey" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/M/Malmesbury_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Malmesbury Railway</a><br></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/25/16" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/25000/25016.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>50002 <I>Superb</I> eastbound at Dauntsey on the GWR main line on 23 December 1983. The locomotive is currently being restored by the Devon Diesel ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Peter_Todd">Peter Todd</a> 23/12/1983</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">1 of 1 images. </div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Christian_Malford_Halt"></a><a href="/locations/C/Christian_Malford_Halt"><h4>Christian Malford Halt</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/C/Christian_Malford_Halt" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Chippenham"></a><a href="/locations/C/Chippenham"><h4>Chippenham</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/C/Chippenham" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/C/Calne_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Calne Railway</a><br></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/83/455" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/83000/83455.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>First Great Western HST departs west from platform 1 at Chippenham in October 2014. Power car 43003, then named 'Isambard Kingdom Brunel', has since ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/John_McIntyre">John McIntyre</a> 18/10/2014</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/84/269" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/84000/84269.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Chippenham station has an unusual feature, in that the platform adjacent to the main entrance, ticket office and cafe has no tracks - it used to serve ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 01/01/2023</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/77/167" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/77000/77167.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>When I saw David Panton's image <a href="/img/76/633/index.html">76633</a> of a stone bridge in Craigleith with houses beyond, it reminded me of this bridge to the west of Chippenham ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 31/05/2021</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/84/206" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/84000/84206.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>This small stone building at Chippenham was used by IKB as a site office to lay out the whole of the GWR from London to Bristol. It wouldn't be big ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 01/01/2023</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 18 images. <a href="/locations/C/Chippenham" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Thingley_Junction"></a><a href="/locations/T/Thingley_Junction"><h4>Thingley Junction</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/T/Thingley_Junction" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/T/Thingley_to_Westbury_Wiltshire,_Somerset_and_Weymouth_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Thingley to Westbury (Wiltshire, Somerset and Weymouth Railway)</a><br></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Corsham"></a><a href="/locations/C/Corsham"><h4>Corsham</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/C/Corsham" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Box_Mill_Lane_Halt"></a><a href="/locations/B/Box_Mill_Lane_Halt"><h4>Box (Mill Lane) Halt</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/B/Box_Mill_Lane_Halt" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Box"></a><a href="/locations/B/Box"><h4>Box</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/B/Box" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/52/980" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/52000/52980.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>This sturdy new footbridge has just been completed at Shockerwick (near Box) between Bath (right) and Chippenham (left). The tall walls will doubtless ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 10/10/2015</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/53/148" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/53000/53148.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>They're a bit keen on bridge rails down Somerset way see image <a href="/img/53/123/index.html">53123</a>. These fine examples (there are at least four posts) hold up a fence near the ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 10/10/2015</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/42/58" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/42000/42058.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Having regained the right line see image <a href="/img/42/41/index.html">42041</a>, a London-bound HST clears Middle Hill tunnel and heads for Box tunnel on 9 February 2013. Although ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 09/02/2013</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">3 of 3 images. </div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Bathford_Halt"></a><a href="/locations/B/Bathford_Halt"><h4>Bathford Halt</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/B/Bathford_Halt" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Bathampton"></a><a href="/locations/B/Bathampton"><h4>Bathampton</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/B/Bathampton" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a><br><br>See also<br><a href="/companies/B/Bradford_Line_Frome,_Yeovil_and_Weymouth_Railway" style="margin:3px;" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">Bradford Line (Frome, Yeovil and Weymouth Railway)</a><br></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/42/584" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/42000/42584.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>A 158 heading for Weymouth approaches the former station and Bathampton Junction past a rather decrepit looking hut on 30 March 2013. The A4 dual ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 30/03/2013</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">1 of 1 images. </div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Hampton_Row_Halt"></a><a href="/locations/H/Hampton_Row_Halt"><h4>Hampton Row Halt</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/H/Hampton_Row_Halt" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Bath_Spa"></a><a href="/locations/B/Bath_Spa"><h4>Bath Spa</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/B/Bath_Spa" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/80/487" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80487.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>There is a stark contrast between the immaculate paintwork of the Westbound Hitachi unit and the peeling paint on the woodwork on the right. Bath Spa ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 27/02/2022</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/61/997" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/61000/61997.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Everything you could possibly want to know about IET's see image <a href="/img/61/791/index.html">61791</a> - except whether you will get a cold shower from the HVAC. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 05/11/2017</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/71/388" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/71000/71388.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Bath Spa station looking very welcoming on a cold dark November night. Compare to see image <a href="/img/37/202/index.html">37202</a> ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 02/11/2019</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/58/289" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/58000/58289.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Transport interchanges are nothing new, you know. A selection of bicycles sheltering from the elements below the platforms see image <a href="/img/43/555/index.html">43555</a>. View ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 08/11/2015</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 34 images. <a href="/locations/B/Bath_Spa" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Oldfield_Park"></a><a href="/locations/O/Oldfield_Park"><h4>Oldfield Park</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/O/Oldfield_Park" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/86/872" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/86000/86872.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>UK Railtours' excursion from Paddington to Weston-Super-Mare behind 67003 passing Oldfield Park, to the west of Bath Spa, on 4th July 2015. This ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/David_Bosher">David Bosher</a> 04/07/2015</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/86/731" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/86000/86731.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Never mind the quality, feel the length. This is undoubtedly the longest string of tickets (4 feet one inch, or 124.5cm) that I have ever bought. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 19/02/2023</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/84/633" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/84000/84633.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Upward mobility: from 1st April 2023, it will be illegal to discriminate against applicants for the role of Traction Inspector on the grounds of ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 18/02/2023</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/84/54" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/84000/84054.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Happy New Year: the Portsmouth to Cardiff Central train via Bath Spa (1926hrs) was a little late passing Oldfield Park on New Year's Day. The red ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 01/01/2023</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">4 of 12 images. <a href="/locations/O/Oldfield_Park" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">more</a></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Tiverton-on-Avon"></a><a href="/locations/T/Tiverton-on-Avon"><h4>Tiverton-on-Avon</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/T/Tiverton-on-Avon" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Saltford"></a><a href="/locations/S/Saltford"><h4>Saltford</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/S/Saltford" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Keynsham"></a><a href="/locations/K/Keynsham"><h4>Keynsham</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/K/Keynsham" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/82/426" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/82000/82426.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Pleasant floral posters brightened up a dull concrete wall behind platform 1 at Keynsham in May 2022. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 01/05/2022</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/73/560" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/73000/73560.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Doctor Day's prescription for Hinksey Yard was to send it a train (631U) full of ballast. 66570 leans to the curve at Keynsham on 4th November 2018. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 04/11/2018</font></div></div><div class="col-md-4"></div><div class="col-md-8">2 of 2 images. </div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Keynsham_Watertroughs"></a><a href="/locations/K/Keynsham_Watertroughs"><h4>Keynsham Watertroughs</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/K/Keynsham_Watertroughs" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="North_Somerset_Junction"></a><a href="/locations/N/North_Somerset_Junction"><h4>North Somerset Junction</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/N/North_Somerset_Junction" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><span style="margin:2px; display: inline-block; width:50px; height:15px;"></span></div><br><br><div class="row"><br><br><br><a id="Bristol_Temple_Meads_1st"></a><a href="/locations/B/Bristol_Temple_Meads_1st"><h4>Bristol Temple Meads [1st]</h4></a></div><div class="row"><div class="col-md-4" style="padding-left:0px;"><p>...</p><a href="/locations/B/Bristol_Temple_Meads_1st" class="btn btn-default btn-sm">More details</a></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/59/859" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/59000/59859.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Bristol Temple Meads station, 26th May, a very impressive station. This is the entry into the original passenger terminus. ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Alan_Cormack">Alan Cormack</a> 26/05/2017</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/42/197" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/42000/42197.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Brunel's original train shed at Temple Meads in February 2013. The site is now used for car parking (with a 茂驴陆1 discount for parking outdoors!), ...</i><br><a href="/contributors/Ken_Strachan">Ken Strachan</a> 10/02/2013</font></div><div class="col-md-2 text-center"><center><a href="/img/7/52" target="img"><img class="img-responsive" style="padding:1px;" src="/__cache/thumbnails/7000/7052.jpg"></a></center><font size=-2>Bristol Temple Meads the original western terminus of the GWR. 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