List of Great Western Railway heritage sites

Great Western Railway heritage sites are those places where stations, bridges and other infrastructure built by the Great Western Railway and its constituent railways can still be found. These may be heritage railways, museums, operational railway stations, or isolated listed structures.

Operational heritage railways

These heritage railways operate on old GWR branch lines. Many other heritage railways and museums also have GWR locomotives or rolling stock in use or on display.

* Bodmin and Wenford Railway – Bodmin General to Boscarne Junction and Bodmin Parkway (formerly Bodmin Road), Cornwall
* Cholsey and Wallingford Railway – Cholsey to Wallingford, Oxfordshire
* Dean Forest – Lydney, Gloucestershire
* Didcot Railway Centre, Oxfordshire
* East Somerset Railway, Cranmore, Somerset
* Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway – Toddington to Cheltenham Racecourse railway station
* Gwili Railway – Abergwili, Carmarthenshire
* Llangollen Railway – Llangollen to Carrog
* Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway – Paignton to Kingswear, Devon [cite book| last = Potts| first = C R| title = The Newton Abbot to Kingswear Railway (1844 - 1988)| publisher = Oakwood Press| date = 1998| location = Oxford| id = ISBN 0-853613-87-7]
* Plym Valley Railway – Marsh Mills, Devon
* Severn Valley Railway Kidderminster to Bridgnorth, Worcestershire
* South Devon Railway – Totnes to Buckfastleigh, Devon
* Swindon and Cricklade Railway – Blunsdon, Gloucestershire
* West Somerset Railway – Bishops Lydeard to Minehead, Somerset

Museums

These museums have a GWR theme or are located in old GWR buildings.

* Buckfastleigh railway mueum, Devon
* Coleford Great Western Railway Museum, Gloucestershire
* Didcot Railway Centre, Oxfordshire
* Kidderminster railway museum, Worcestershire
* Newton Abbot Town and GWR Museum, Devon
* STEAM – the museum of the GWR, Swindon, Wiltshire (in the old Swindon railway works)

Listed structures

In addition to the places listed below, there are a great many smaller bridges and other structures that have been given listed status. The listing may only cover certain buildings and structures at each location.

World Heritage Site

UNESCO is considering a proposal to list the Great Western Main Line as a World Heritage Site. The proposal comprises seven individual sites.cite web| title = The Great Western Railway: Paddington-Bristol (selected parts)| publisher = United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation| date = 1999 | url = http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/1319/| accessdate = [2008-05-22] These are Bristol Temple Meads railway station (including Brunel's Company Offices, Boardroom, train shed, and the Bristol and Exeter Railway Offices along with the route over the River Avon); Bath Spa railway station along with the line from Twerton Tunnel to the Sydney Gardens, Middlehill and Box Tunnels; the Swindon area including Swindon railway works and village; Maidenhead Railway Bridge; Wharncliffe Viaduct; and London Paddington station.

Grade I listed

* Avon Bridge, Bristol [cite web | title=Avon Bridge | work=Images of England | url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?id=380854 | accessdate=2007-03-16]
* Bristol Temple Meads railway station [cite book| last = Oakley| first = Mike| title = Bristol Railway Stations 1840-2005| publisher = The Dovecote Press| date = 2002| location = Wimbourne| id = ISBN 1-904349-09-9]
* London Paddington station [cite book| last = Brindle| first = Steven| title = Paddington Station: its history and architecture| publisher = English Heritage| date = 2004| location = Swindon| id = ISBN 1-87359-270-1]
* Maidenhead Railway Bridge, Berkshire
* Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, Cornwall [cite book| last = Binding| first = John| title = Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge| publisher = Twelveheads Press| date = 1997| location = Truro| id = ISBN 0-90629-439-8]
* Starcross pumping house, Devon

Grade II* listed

* Bath Spa railway station, Somerset
* Box Tunnel, Wiltshire
* Bridgwater railway station, Somerset
* Bristol & Exeter Railway Headquarters, Temple Meads, Bristol
* Chippenham Viaduct, Wiltshire
* Maidenhead Railway Bridge, Buckinghamshire
* Moorswater Viaduct, Liskeard, Cornwall
* Mortimer railway station, Hampshire
* Parrett Bridge, Bridgwater, Somerset
* Swindon railway works, Wiltshire (some buildings listed Grade II)
* Windsor Railway Bridge, Berkshire
* Worcester Shrub Hill railway station, Worcestershire

Grade II listed

* Ashburton goods shed, Devon
* Bovey railway station, Devon
* Bradford-on-Avon railway station, Wiltshire
* Chippenham railway station, Wiltshire
* Dawlish railway station, Devon
* Devil's Bridge, Bleadon, Somerset
* Exeter goods transfer shed, Devon
* Exeter St Thomas railway station, Devon
* Exminster railway station, Devon
* Frome railway station, Somerset
* Gatehampton Railway Bridge, Goring, Berkshire
* Hele and Bradninch goods shed, Devon
* Maiden Newton railway station, Dorset
* Minehead railway station, Somerset
* Moulsford Railway Bridge, Oxfordshire
* Penzance railway station, Cornwall
* Reading railway station, Berkshire
* Redruth railway station, Cornwall
* St Austell railway station, Cornwall
* St Erth railway station, Cornwall
* Salisbury goods shed, Wiltshire
* Sandford and Banwell railway station, Somerset
* Slough railway station, Berkshire
* Stoke Canon signal box, Devon
* Taunton railway station, Somerset
* Torquay railway station, Devon
* Torre railway station, Devon
* Tregenna Castle Hotel, St Ives, Cornwall
* Wells goods shed, Somerset
* Weston-super-Mare signal box, Somerset
* Williton railway station, Somerset
* Windsor and Eton Central railway station, Berkshire
* Yatton railway station, Somerset

ee also

* List of British heritage and private railways
* List of railway museums in the United Kingdom
* National Railway Museum, York

References