🇬🇧 Operator
Train routes operated by GWR
2 routes · classic 2
GWR runs 2 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 293 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the Cardiff–Portsmouth at 230 km; the fastest is the Cardiff–Portsmouth, running up to 145 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1841.
The company itself dates to 1833, filed on Wikidata as a train operating company. What this page says about the company comes from GWR's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q1419438 ↗
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- 2
- Total length
- 293 km
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Fastest
- Cardiff–Portsmouth · 145 km/h
- Longest
- Cardiff–Portsmouth · 230 km
- Oldest line here
- 1841
- Company founded
- 1833
- Type
- train operating company
Classic (2)
- Cardiff–Portsmouth
Wales to the Solent the slow, lovely way: the Severn Tunnel, Bath’s crescents, Salisbury’s spire and the harbour at Portsmouth.
- Tarka Line
Along the Taw through Henry Williamson’s Tarka the Otter country — Devon’s surviving branch line winding from Exeter’s cathedral city to Barnstaple.
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Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does GWR run?
2 of the routes in this atlas are GWR services, covering 293 km across 1 country (United Kingdom). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest GWR train?
The Cardiff–Portsmouth, Cardiff to Portsmouth, at up to 145 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes ≈ 3 h 25 min over 230 km.
Does GWR run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 2 GWR routes listed here are daytime services.
When was GWR founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1833, and files it as a train operating company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1841 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries GWR runs in
- 🇬🇧 Train routes in United Kingdom 75 routes
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- Transport for Wales 14 routes
- ScotRail 7 routes
- Great Western Railway 5 routes
- Northern 5 routes
- Avanti West Coast 4 routes
- Eurostar 4 routes
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