Great Western Railway heritage sites are those places where stations, bridges and other infrastructure built by the Great Western Railway and its constituent railways can still be found. These may be heritage railways, museums, operational railway stations, or isolated listed structures.
Operational GWR style heritage railways
These heritage railways operate on old GWR branch lines. Many other heritage railways and museums also have GWR locomotives or rolling stock in use or on display.
Bodmin & Wenford Railway – Bodmin General to Boscarne Junction and Bodmin Parkway (formerly Bodmin Road), Cornwall Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway – Chinnor, Oxfordshire to Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire Cholsey & Wallingford Railway – Cholsey to Wallingford, Oxfordshire Dean Forest Railway – Lydney to Parkend, Gloucestershire Didcot Railway Centre, Oxfordshire East Somerset Railway, Cranmore, Somerset Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway – , Worcestershire to , Gloucestershire Gwili Railway – Bronwydd Arms to Llwyfan Cerrig, Carmarthenshire Llangollen Railway – Llangollen to Carrog Dartmouth Steam Railway – Paignton to Kingswear, Devon Plym Valley Railway – Marsh Mills, Devon Severn Valley Railway – Kidderminster to Bridgnorth, Worcestershire and Shropshire South Devon Railway – Totnes to Buckfastleigh, Devon Swindon and Cricklade Railway – Blunsdon, Gloucestershire West Somerset Railway – Bishops Lydeard to Minehead, Somerset
Museums
These museums have a GWR theme or are located in old GWR buildings.
Buckfastleigh Railway Museum, Devon
Coleford Great Western Railway Museum, Gloucestershire
Didcot Railway Centre, Oxfordshire
Kidderminster railway museum, Worcestershire
Newton Abbot Town and GWR Museum, Devon
STEAM – the museum of the GWR, Swindon, Wiltshire (in the old Swindon railway works)
Listed structures
In addition to the places listed below, there are a great many smaller bridges and other structures that have been given listed status. The listing may only cover certain buildings and structures at each location.
World Heritage Site
UNESCO is considering a proposal to list the Great Western Main Line as a World Heritage Site. The proposal comprises seven individual sites. These are Bristol Temple Meads railway station (including Brunel's Company Offices, Boardroom, train shed, and the Bristol and Exeter Railway Offices along with the route over the River Avon); Bath Spa railway station along with the line from Twerton Tunnel to the Sydney Gardens, Middlehill and Box Tunnels; the Swindon area including Swindon railway works and village; Maidenhead Railway Bridge; Wharncliffe Viaduct; and London Paddington station.
Grade I listed
Avon Bridge, Bristol
Bristol Temple Meads railway station
London Paddington station
Maidenhead Railway Bridge, Berkshire
Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, Cornwall
Starcross pumping house, Devon
Grade II* listed
Bath Spa railway station, Somerset
Box Tunnel, Wiltshire
Bridgwater railway station, Somerset
Bristol & Exeter Railway Headquarters, Temple Meads, Bristol
Chippenham viaduct, Wiltshire
Maidenhead Railway Bridge, Buckinghamshire
Moorswater Viaduct, Liskeard, Cornwall
Mortimer railway station, Berkshire
Parrett Bridge, Bridgwater, Somerset
Swindon railway works, Wiltshire (some buildings listed Grade II) Windsor Railway Bridge, Berkshire Worcester Shrub Hill railway station, Worcestershire