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 GWR style 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 & Wenford Railway – Bodmin General to Boscarne Junction and Bodmin Parkway (formerly Bodmin Road), Cornwall Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway – Chinnor, Oxfordshire to Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire Cholsey & Wallingford Railway – Cholsey to Wallingford, Oxfordshire Dean Forest Railway – Lydney to Parkend, Gloucestershire Didcot Railway Centre, Oxfordshire East Somerset Railway, Cranmore, Somerset Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway – , Worcestershire to , Gloucestershire Gwili Railway – Bronwydd Arms to Llwyfan Cerrig, Carmarthenshire Llangollen Railway – Llangollen to Carrog Dartmouth Steam Railway – Paignton to Kingswear, Devon Plym Valley Railway – Marsh Mills, Devon Severn Valley Railway – Kidderminster to Bridgnorth, Worcestershire and Shropshire 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 Museum, 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. 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 Bristol Temple Meads railway station London Paddington station Maidenhead Railway Bridge, Berkshire Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, Cornwall 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, Berkshire 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 Leamington Spa railway station, Warwickshire 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

See also

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

References