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Description
This will be a collection of all the maps that will make up the region of England and Wales that the Great Western Railway served. Each map will represent a railway company (or several) that were amalgated or bought by the Great Western Railway to form what it was in 1922. The maps will include:

London - Didcot / Newbury
Didcot - Bristol
Swindon - Weymouth (COMPLETED)
Bristol - Exeter (COMPLETED)
Exeter - Plymouth (COMPLETED)
Plymouth - Penzance (COMPLETED)
Oxford - Worcester / Wolverhampton
Worcester / Hereford - Newport (IN PROGRESS)
Newport - Swansea (COMPLETED)
Swansea - Fishguard (COMPLETED)
Hereford / Birmingham - Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury - Birkenhead

Obviously this is a lot of maps, but they are needed in order to get a usable scale. This means they will take a very long time to complete. Please bear in mind not only is this something I do purely because I enioy it, so do not expect me to do these quickly. I do plan on including all the branches in each region, even the ones closed in the Beeching cuts. If you live in a village in the region, even if it is not connected by rail, feel free to leave a comment or add me as a friend on steam asking for me to include it in my map - I happily will! The same goes for if you have any requests for a certain map. A transpennine map and Greater Bristol have already been requested, so they are on my to-do list.
I hope you all have as much fun playing these maps as I do making them!
Items (7)
Bristol & Exeter Railway
Created by RolleyPovey
Once the GWR was approved for a railway connection between Bristol and London, the Merchants wanted a connection to Exeter and the West country via rail. The Bristol & Exeter railway was approved in 1836, while the GWR was under construction. The line deci...
South Devon Railway
Created by RolleyPovey
In 1844, Parliament passed the act to build a railway between Exeter and Plymouth, and the final South Devon Mainline was completed in 1849. Originally, the railway used an atmospheric system to pull trains, which includes a pistol between the rails being ...
Cornwall Railway and West Cornwall Railway
Created by RolleyPovey
During the Railway Mania of the 1830s and 40s, Southampton quickly got a direct connection to London via rail. This caused fears that Falmouth would lose it's port, so the Cornwall Railway was founded to build a line between Falmouth and Plymouth North Roa...
South Welsh Valleys
Created by RolleyPovey
This map has been a long time in the making, and I am very proud of the end result. The next map in my GWR series features a high detail version of the railways in South Wales, owned by a range of companies until 1922. The reason this area is so dense of r...
Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway
Created by RolleyPovey
The Wiltshire, Somerset and Weymouth Railway was created in 1845 to build and operate a railway from Chippenham, to Weymouth and Salisbury. They began the construction in broad gauge, and got as far as Westbury. The line opened to passengers in 1848, but h...
South Wales Railway
Created by RolleyPovey
The South Wales railway was proposed in 1844 to build a railway between Fishguard to Gloucester, where it would connect with the Great Western Railway. It worked closely with the GWR, and construction began in 1847. It was originally intended to run to Fis...
West Midland Railway
Created by RolleyPovey
The West Midland Railway was formed in 1860 by the merge of 4 railways, and then absorbed 2 more in 1862, before being absorbed itself by the Great Western Railway in 1863. The West Midland Railway was formed by the merge of: Newport, Abergavenny and Heref...