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    in Wales and southern England. In Britain Pagoda shelters are associated with the Great Western Railway (GWR) who introduced them in 1907 and erected a...
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  • platform was unlit and trains only stopped during daylight. It is unclear whether any shelter was provided initially, but a GWR style pagoda shelter was...
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  • (Mount Hawke Halt)) opened on 14 August 1905. It had a single platform with a pagoda shelter, located in a cutting on the right hand side of trains going...
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    of the English county of Dorset. It consisted of a single platform and GWR pagoda shelter. Opened on 1 May 1906, it was sited next to an overbridge carrying...
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  • Stourport Road. Facilities included a single wooden platform, a ticket booth and a Pagoda Platform Shelter. Foley Park Halt opened in January 1905 and was...
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    reopening the only shelter for passengers awaiting trains was a wooden shed. This was subsequently replaced with a GWR style pagoda that was constructed...
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  • Thumbnail for Coaches of the Great Western Railway
    The passenger coaches of the Great Western Railway (GWR) were many and varied, ranging from four and six-wheeled vehicles for the original broad gauge...
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    level crossing in the village of Cove, and a simple platform with a corrugated iron pagoda shelter was opened for passengers on 9 June 1924. The level...
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    located in October 2019); also, a GWR pagoda shelter remains on a farm near Tregaron High School. Pont Llanio: A GWR 1930s cast-iron water tank is located...
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  • the station had GWR pagoda shelters and wooden platforms. The platforms were later replaced with brick built structures but the pagodas remained until...
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    features a traditional GWR pagoda shelter, which includes original wooden seating, and provides good shelter from the weather. The shelter was restored to its...
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    point. The founders and commercial backers of the Great Western Railway (GWR) supported Isambard Kingdom Brunel's scheme to develop an integrated railway...
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  • Thumbnail for Ebley Crossing Halt railway station
    ground level platforms, but these were subsequently replaced by standard height platforms along with GWR pagoda style shelters. The platforms were later...
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    the line in 1873. An iron 'pagoda' waiting shelter was provided on each 150 feet (46 m)-long platform. In 1906 the platforms were extended to 400 feet...
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    it was the largest depot on the entire GWR system, and set the pattern for similar depots throughout the GWR including Tyseley. It had four 65 feet (19...
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    The GWR autocoach (or auto-trailer) is a type of coach that was used by the Great Western Railway for push-pull trains powered by a steam locomotive....
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    public service between Slough, Windsor and Didcot. Soon after this, the GWR ordered the next three production units, Nos. 2 to 4, which were built with...
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  • The GWR 0-6-0PT (pannier tank), is a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway with the water tanks carried on both sides of...
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    the station had GWR pagoda shelters and wooden platforms. The platforms were later replaced with brick built structures but the pagodas remained until...
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    original carriages survive in preservation. The original backers of the GWR had adopted Isambard Kingdom Brunel's plan to speed trans-Atlantic Ocean...
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  • branch line from Chippenham to Calne. Facilities were a wooden platform with a GWR pagoda shelter The halt closed in 1965. Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The...
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    north of Helston. Truthall originally had a short platform with an iconic "Pagoda Platform Shelter”. Truthall Halt was constructed adjacent to a road...
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    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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    estate. The trackbed here is now a footpath, and the platform, nameboard and pagoda-roofed GWR shelter have been restored. Notes Butt 1995, p. 146. Aberayron...
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    for 4003 Lode Star & The GWR Railcar. GWR 4073 Class 4073 Caerphilly Castle – Built in 1923. Part of the National Collection GWR 4200 Class 4248 – Built...
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    Museums Swindon Coleford Llanelli riots of 1911 Middle Circle Pagoda platform shelter Paintings The Railway Station Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great...
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  • Thumbnail for Great Western Railway War Memorial
    Tait. It stands on platform 1 at London Paddington station, commemorating the 2,500 employees of the Great Western Railway (GWR) who were killed in the...
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  • Thumbnail for Locomotives of the Great Western Railway
    The first Locomotives of the Great Western Railway (GWR) were specified by Isambard Kingdom Brunel but Daniel Gooch was soon appointed as the railway's...
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    From 1920, the cab side of Great Western Railway (GWR) steam locomotives bore a letter on a coloured disc, which enabled staff to quickly assess the capabilities...
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  • Thumbnail for Brimscombe Bridge Halt railway station
    the basic wooden platforms was from the overbridge. Each with GWR pagoda style shelters soon after opening and electric lighting was installed in February...
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