List of Great Western Railway heritage sites

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 – Broadway, Worcestershire to Cheltenham Racecourse, 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.