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    The Great Western Main Line (GWML) is a main line railway in England that runs westwards from London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads. It connects to...
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    In the 2010s Network Rail modernised the Great Western Main Line, the South Wales Main Line, and other associated lines. The modernisation plans were announced...
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    The Great Eastern Main Line (GEML, sometimes referred to as the East Anglia Main Line) is a 114.5-mile (184.3 km) major railway line on the British railway...
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    270. GWR operates long-distance inter-city services along the Great Western Main Line to and from the West of England and South Wales, inter-city services...
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    The Great Central Main Line (GCML), also known as the London Extension of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR), is a former railway...
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  • Thumbnail for Acton Main Line railway station
    Acton Main Line is a railway station on the Great Western Main Line in Acton, west London, England. Located 4 miles 21 chains (6.9 km) down the line from...
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    Bath Spa Great Western Main Line diverges to Chippenham, Swindon and London Paddington Freshford Avoncliff Bradford-on-Avon TransWilts Line joins from...
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    Great Western Main Line west of Paddington station to Abbey Wood and via Whitechapel to the Great Eastern Main Line near Stratford; along the Great Western...
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    Direct Railway, is a branch of the Great Western Main Line in Great Britain. It diverges from the core London-Bristol line at Royal Wootton Bassett beyond...
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    the Great Western Railway's main line from London Paddington to Birmingham Snow Hill, Wolverhampton Low Level and Birkenhead Woodside. Most main line services...
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    the Marston Vale line from Bletchley to Bedford. The existing Cherwell Valley line will form a link to the Great Western Main Line at Didcot Parkway...
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    Guppy and a group of Bristol investors formed the Great Western Steamship Company to build a line of steamships for the Bristol–New York route. The idea...
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  • Thumbnail for Great Western Railway
    The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales...
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    thus the Great Western Main Line), Chiltern Main Line, West Coast Main Line, Midland Main Line, East Coast Main Line, West Anglia Main Line). As originally...
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    West Coast Main Line, replacing the Blue Pullman services to the Midlands. The Blue Pullman sets were then allocated solely to the Western Region and...
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    Northern Hub, Great Western Main Line, South Wales Main Line, Midland Main Line, Electric Spine, Crossrail, Gospel Oak to Barking line and West Midlands...
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    the direct line through Westbury the Great Western Main Line and South Wales Main Line via Bristol Temple Meads the Great Western Main Line to Chippenham...
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    the line. The six-car C Stock trains were replaced from 2012 to 2014 by new seven-car S Stock trains. The line runs parallel to the Great Western Main Line...
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    The Cornish Main Line (Cornish: Penn-hyns-horn Kernow) is a railway line in Cornwall and Devon in the United Kingdom. It runs from Penzance to Plymouth...
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    & Harlington and Heathrow Airport. FGWL ran services along the Great Western Main Line from London Paddington to Didcot with services continuing to north...
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  • to: Great Western Main Line, a principal passenger and freight rail route Great Western Railway (train operating company), traded as Great Western Trains...
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    connections to the Great Western Main Line at Reading, the Waterloo-Reading line at Wokingham, the Alton line at Ash, the Portsmouth Direct Line at Guildford...
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    Crossrail (redirect from Liz Line)
    Elizabeth line, that crosses the capital from suburbs on the west to east and connects two major railway lines terminating in London: the Great Western Main Line...
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    Line West Coast Main Line Great Western Main Line Highland Main Line Notes Quickly the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway ran its branch line to Sheffield Wicker...
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  • Thumbnail for Reading–Taunton line
    The Reading–Taunton line is a major branch of the Great Western Main Line from which it diverges at Reading railway station. It runs to Cogload Junction...
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    major branch of the Great Western Main Line and runs from Exeter St Davids to Plymouth, from where it continues as the Cornish Main Line. It was one of the...
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  • Thumbnail for List of proposed railway electrification routes in Great Britain
    Northern Hub, Great Western Main Line, South Wales Main Line, Midland Main Line, Electric Spine, Crossrail, Gospel Oak to Barking line and West Midlands...
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    Newcastle. The line is a key transport artery on the eastern side of Great Britain running broadly parallel to the A1 road. The main line acts as a 'spine'...
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    high-speed line reaching 186 mph (300 km/h). Trains currently travel at 125 mph (200 km/h) on the East Coast Main Line, Great Western Main Line, Midland Main Line...
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    Following the electrification of the Great Western Main Line up to Didcot Parkway, as well as the Reading-Taunton line as far as Newbury, services between...
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