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The list of constituent companies of the Great Western Railway (GWR) as a result of the the Railways Act 1921: The Railways Act of 1921, also known as the Grouping forcibly merged British railway companies into The Big Four, as of 1st January 1923. ...
Constituent companies The new Great Western Railway comprised the following constituent companies: Bristol Temple Meads railway station, the original terminus at Bristol. ...
The Barry Railway (Barry) was incorporated by Act of Parliament on August 14 1884, for the construction of a dock at Barry Island, 7 miles from Cardiff, and the construction of railways about 26 miles in length from the docks to the Rhondda Valley, with access by junctions with the...
The Cambrian Railways (Cambrian) owned a total of 230 miles of track, over a large area of mid-Wales. ...
The Cardiff Railway came into being from the need to service Bute Docks, so as to provide facilities for the traffic to and from the Docks. ...
The Rhymney Railway (Rhymney) was virtually a single stretch of main line, some twenty-five miles in length, by which the Rhymney Valley was connected to the docks at Cardiff in the county of Glamorgan, South Wales. ...
The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) is a railway in Glamorgan, South Wales, and is one of the oldest in Wales. ...
Subsidiary companies
Independently worked BRECON and MERTHYR RAILWAY The Routes The Brecon and Merthyr Junction Railway was one of several railways that served the industrial areas of South Wales and Monmouthshire. ...
A British railway created in 1884 by the amalgamation of two earlier railways - the Swindon, Marlborough & Andover Railway and the Swindon & Cheltenham Extension Railway. ...
Semi-independent lines These were worked by the GWR but possessed separate rolling stock etc. - Port Talbot Railway and Docks (PTR&D) 35 miles (56km)
- Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway 29 miles (46km)
Non-working companies Originally leased to or worked by the GWR: - Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway 42.75 miles (68km)
- Exeter Railway 8.75 miles (14km)
- Forest of Dean Central Railway 5 miles (8km)
- Gwendreath Railway 3 miles (5km)
- Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway 12 miles (19km)
- Liskeard and Looe Railway 9 miles (14km)
- Princetown Railway 10.5 miles (17km)
- Ross and Monmouth Railway 12.5 miles (20km)
- Teign Valley Railway 7.75 miles (12 km)
- West Somerset Railway 14.5 miles (23km) (now the West Somerset Railway heritage line)
Originally leased to or worked by the TVR At 20 miles, the West Somerset Railway (WSR) is the longest privately owned passenger rail line in the UK. It operates using heritage steam and diesel locomotives, but provides transport to the local community as well as a leisure attraction for visitors. ...
- Penarth Extension Railway 1.75 miles (3km)
- Penarth Harbour, Dock and Railway 9.75 miles (16km)
Originally leased to or worked by the Cambrian - Mawddwy Railway 6.75 miles (11km)
- Van Railway 6.75 miles (11km)
- Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway 9.25 miles (15km) (now the Welshpool & Llanfair Railway heritage line)
- Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway 12.75 miles (20km)
Originally leased or worked by the PTR&D The Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway (W&LLR) is a narrow gauge heritage railway in Wales. ...
- South Wales Mineral Railway 13 miles (21km)
Originally leased to or worked by the Barry - Vale of Glamorgan Railway 20.75 miles (33km)
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