West from PaddingtonWest from Paddington is the essential companion for every traveller on First Great Western Railway. Packed with information on all the landmarks, railway history, geographical features and places of interest that can be seen from your window as your journey unfolds, this indispensable guide covers three great routes - Paddington to Bristol; Reading to Penzance and Swindon to Carmarthen. A route map for each section of the journey highlights the features described, and the book includes hundreds of specially commissioned colour photographs giving a 'traveller's-eye' view. Each entry indicates on which side of the train the place or item of interest described can be found. Written by lifelong railway enthusiast and Professor of Transport, Stuart Cole, and with a Foreword by pop impresario and railway devotee Pete Waterman OBE, West from Paddington will turn your journey into a voyage of discovery. |
Contents
Paddington to Bristol | 2 |
Reading to Penzance | 47 |
Swindon to CarmarthenCaerfyrddin | 110 |
Sources | 159 |
Building the line to Plymouth the chronology | 167 |
Common terms and phrases
19th century Abbey ASHTON Avon Canal BAGNOR Bath Bedwyn Brewery Bridgend Bristol Temple Meads Brunel building built CAMP HALT Cardiff Carmarthen Castle Cary centre Chippenham CHISELDON clay CLEARBROOK HALT closed coal Company Cornwall CROSS Cymru Dawlish Depot Devon Didcot EAST GARSTON EASTBURY HALT engineering estuary Exeter factory FILTON freight Gorsaf Hayle Heathrow hill Hotel industry JUNC Junction Kennet and Avon LAMBOURN Langport Llanelli Llanwern located London M4 Motorway main line Manor MELKSHAM mill Neath Newbury Newport original PANGBOURNE Parkway Station passengers PEMBREY Penzance platform Plymouth Port Talbot R+L Opened rail Reading rebuilt red brick River road route Royal Severn Tunnel Somerset South Wales St Austell STANLEY BRIDGE HT Station/Gorsaf STOCKCROSS stone Swansea Swindon Swindon Phase Taunton Teignmouth Totnes tower town trains TWYFORD UFFINGTON Valley viaduct village WELFORD PARK Welsh West from Paddington Westbury Western Railway Wootton Bassett yards