Reading station turns 185-years-old this week, having opened its doors in 1840 as a temporary terminus for Brunel’s Great ...

Reading station is turning 185 years old after opening in 1840. The station was first used as a temporary terminus for Brunel's Great Western Railway. To mark the occasion, the station team and ...

The GWR was unique in using this size gauge and the whole of the network in the 1830s/40s was built using broad gauge. Brunel changed the face of Wiltshire and the South West and was at the ...

Significantly, the current level of planned investment in the west of England’s rail network is on a scale with that of Brunel’s time, as GWR posters continue to remind its customers: “the biggest ...

A two-metre-tall hand-carved statue of Sir Daniel Gooch has been revealed at Swindon's GWR Park. Sir Daniel was ... in a ...

At the age of 24, he sent a letter to visionary chief engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, recommending to build ... as a permanent gardener’s base for GWR Park.