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Everything GWR ‘Engine of the Year’ Poll
Please vote for your choice of GWR Engine of the Year below. but you can only vote once! There is a section for you to propose alternatives but they must be accompanied by a good justification. The Pollmeister’s word is final and probably a power trip…
GWR Engine of the Year 2014
It’s that time again! (And it does seem to have come round fast) Last year, the award was won, unexpectedly, by D1015 Western Champion and Corris Railway No 3, Sir Haydn so who will it be this year (you can’t win it twice running!)? As usual, we are in your hands as to which GWR/WR […]
Save Ashburton Station!: sample letter to National Park Authority
Email: forwardplanning@dartmoor.gov.uk, Dear Dan Janota I write as a member of the EverythingGWR web community, an on-line group committed to conserving for future generations as much of the heritage of the Great Western Railway as possible. There has been considerable concern expressed on our very active Facebook page regarding reports that the station site at Ashburton may be lost to […]
46447 Returns at Cranmore
Just returned from the launch of Ivatt Class 2 No 46447 at the East Somerset Railway – what a fabulous job Steve Masters and his team have made of it! Steve is too modest to blow his own trumpet but the achievement of transforming 46447 from Barry wreck to steaming in stunning lined out late […]
Join the Everything GWR Community!
I am quite amazed by the success of Everything GWR. When I set it up, I was just indulging my own almost obsessive love of the Great Western Railway. I was just having fun with it but it seems to have just grown… I am daily astonished to find that we have hundreds of visitors […]
A GWR Super Train?
The Didcot Facebook post yesterday about 5069′s exploit on the Ocean Liner Special 60 years ago set me buzzing! These wonderful vehicles were another example of one-up-man-ship on the part of the GWR as they set standards of comfort that went beyond the use of Pullmans on other railways. Eight vehicles were built, all named […]
The Long Marston Military Railway Centre
It is a huge pleasure to see this group starting up at the northern end of ‘our’ railway, the Glos Warks Railway, for two main reasons. The first one is very personal: when I was 15 and forced to be a member of the school’s cadet force in Dorchester, the only silver lining in what […]
The GWR at the NRM
I had a great day at the NRM, travelling up from Bristol, courtesy of Cross Country Trains. It was a bit of a mini adventure to venture into Midland territory and then up onto the Great Northern after so long in the South West. I must get out of my chocolate and cream comfort zone […]
In the Twinkling of an Eye
It was all over in 35 seconds. A motley group of folk shuffled together on Keynsham station on a dull grey Saturday afternoon. Some had cameras and others didn’t. You might have thought they were waiting for a train to Bristol. But a Sprinter growled past unnoticed and all eyes were on the far distance, […]
5028 Llantilio Castle – an ‘unsung’ Castle
We all know 5029 Nunney Castle, a celebrity engine that we are all looking forward to seeing on the mainline again this year. But how many of us know much about the engine that came before it in the sequence: 5028 Llantilio Castle? Relatively unknown and in the shadow of its surviving sister, 5028 became […]
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