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unusual facts about The Great Western


The Great Western

The title apparently refers to the Great Western Railway, which appears to be reflected in the album's artwork.



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Aberdeen Suburban Tramways

The first was from the Great Western Road terminus to Bieldside church.

Albert Edward

Albert Edward was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.

Buck English

The local newspaper later said, "Shortly before this robbery, he and his companion met four Chinese miners coming down from the Great Western Mine (near Middletown), and robbed them of their watches and money."

Celyn

Capel Celyn Halt railway station, on the Great Western Railway's Bala Ffestiniog Line in Wales

Cheltenham Spa Express

The Great Western Railway's successor, British Rail, continued to use the "Cheltenham Spa Express" brand until the 1960s, when it fell out of use.

Clifford Castle

This station was also the terminus of the Great Western line—beyond the station the railroad was the Golden Valley Railway.

Devonia

Devonia was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915

Earl of Warwick

Earl of Warwick was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.

Great Western Arms Company

In 1954, Wilson founded the Great Western Arms Company with financial backing from a doctor and 2 NFL Football players: Dan Reeves and Dan Fortmann to produce an almost-exact clone of the old Colt SAA for television and movie westerns.

Grierson

Grierson was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915; formerly named Ulysses before 1895.

GWR Charles Tayleur locomotives

:This locomotive was the first to run on the Great Western Railway when it was tested on 28 December 1837 from its shed at West Drayton.

GWR Haigh Foundry locomotives

:Between 1846 and 1851 it carried a different name, Teign, while working on the South Devon Railway, after the River Teign; it reverted to Viper when it returned to the Great Western Railway.

GWR Sir Watkin Class

:This locomotive was named after Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, MP, the owner of Wynnstay near Ruabon and a director of the Great Western Railway.

Hay-on-Wye railway station

The Golden Valley Railway, which had its northern junction at Hay and ran through the Golden Valley to Pontrilas, was built between 1876 and 1889, was closed down in 1898, and then rescued by the Great Western Railway in 1901.

Heart Bristol

It should also be noted that GWR's oldies service was originally called Brunel Classic Gold, after the Great Western Railway's founding father Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Iron Duke

Iron Duke was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.

Kelvinbridge

In the early 19th century, the Great Western Bridge provided a crossing point across the boundary of the city and into the neighbouring town of Hillhead, which was incorporated into the city later.

Lochlann

In 1058 Magnus Haraldsson is called "the son of the king of Lochlann", and his nephew Magnus Barefoot is the "king of Lochlann" in the Irish πreports of the great western expedition four decades later.

Mount Victoria, New South Wales

The Roads and Maritime Services is at present researching a major upgrade to the Great Western Highway with the view to bypass the township and the steep Victoria Pass down to Little Hartley to the west.

Natalya Naryshkina

Coming from a noble family, daughter of Kirill Poluektovich Naryshkin (1623–1691) and wife Anna Leontyevna Leontyeva (d. 1706, daughter of Leonty Dimitriyevich Leontyev and spouse Praskovya Ivanovna Rayevskaya who died in 1641), she was brought up in the house of the great Western-leaning boyar Artamon Matveyev.

National Quartet Convention

These new events were the Great Western Convention in Fresno, California; the Canadian Quartet Convention in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada; and the Central Canada Gospel Quartet Convention in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Randolph B. Marcy

Marcy’s 1859 book, The Prairie Traveler: A Handbook for Overland Expeditions, with Maps, Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific, written at the direction of the Department of State and published by the U.S. government, has been called one of the most important works in making possible the great Western overland migration of United States settlers in the last half of the 19th century.

Royal Sovereign

Royal Sovereign was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.

South Dennis Train Station

The South Dennis Train Station was located on the Great Western Road in South Dennis, Massachusetts.

Wilton railway station

Wilton North railway station, on the Salisbury branch line of the Great Western Railway