Great Western Railway
British railway company
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| March 2025 | Locomotive 4150 from the 5101 class is expected to return to traffic at the Severn Valley Railway after undergoing restoration. |
| 2024 | Great Western Railway locomotive 2807 at Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway received a boiler ticket valid until 2034. |
| April 2024 | The 6800 'Grange' class locomotive 6880 Betton Grange was completed at Tyseley Locomotive Works. |
| January 2023 | Great Western Railway locomotive 2857 at Severn Valley Railway had its boiler ticket expire. |
| August 2022 | Peckett & Sons Works No 2142 Northern Gas Board No 1, owned by the Darlington Railway Preservation Society, became operational. |
| August 2022 | Sentinel Works No 6515, a 12 Sentinel 4wVBT locomotive, became operational as a privately owned engine. |
| August 2022 | British Rail Class 08 diesel locomotive 08 022 Lion became operational, having been previously used at the Guinness Brewery in Park Royal, London. |
| February 2021 | Steam railmotor 93's boiler ticket expired at Didcot Railway Centre. |
| 2019 | The North Warwickshire Line remains in active use as a passenger branch line. |
| 2019 | The railway line has no ordinary revenue traffic at this time. |
| May 18 2019 | High Speed Train power car 43185 stops carrying the 'Great Western' name, operated by the modern Great Western Railway. |
| January 2019 | The Campaign for Better Transport identified the line between Stoke and Wellington as Priority 2 for potential railway reopening, indicating a need for further development or change in circumstances. |
| 2018 | Locomotive 10077 entered service at the Plym Valley Railway. |
| 2017 | Owen Meredith, Conservative parliamentary candidate for Newcastle-under-Lyme, suggested a feasibility study into reopening part of the Wellington and Drayton Railway line to connect Newcastle with Stoke and HS2. |
| July 2017 | A Hibberd Carpenter locomotive from the Guinness Brewery in Park Royal, London was under repair. |
| 2016 | 5374 Lord Oliver Brown transferred to the Plym Valley Railway. |
| 2015 | Locomotive 10077 moved to the Plym Valley Railway for restoration. |
| 2015 | Coal traffic to Ironbridge B Power Station ceases, marking the end of major industrial use of the railway line. |
| September 2015 | First Great Western changed its name back to Great Western Railway, aiming to 'reinstate the ideals of our founder'. |
| 2011 | Locomotive 705 sold from the East Somerset Railway. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Wellington and Drayton Railway, Plym Valley Railway, Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, Cholsey and Wallingford Railway, Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, Great Western Railway & Wellington to Craven Arms Railway, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.