GWR EXPLAINED - A Rail Operator Summary 

It's videos like this that make you realise what a truly massive franchise GWR is! I can't imagine how much effort and research this video would have taken, so great work!

My life and soul living in Plymouth is all I see and no bias are my favourite TOC. Most companies have taken on white + colours branding but I love GWRs branding and colour pallet its very subdued and stylish. Their service is reliable and stations well looked after. Also just a note the Exmouth to Paignton are every 15 minutes :)

Nice route map! hopefully-helpful-not-annoying tip, in case you happen to discuss SW trains in more detail: Tamar is TAY-mar and Avocet is a soft c like avo-set

I live around Reading. GWR is my lifeline, and I love GWR. They do well in branding, in operation, fast, comfortable m frequent. Way better than the old FGW. Just… need more carriages, it’s so busy now.

2:49 There's actually 2 trains per day that go between Paddington to Greenford. For anyone who is interested, these are: 05 40 Paddington - Greenford 21 40 Greenford - Paddington (These times can vary by a few minutes, no idea why)

Thank you for doing this, love GWR as they are my local operator!

Great work, Ashley! :)

I grew up in Bristol, and have travelled a lot on GWR - throughout Somerset, Devon & South Wales last summer (as the tickets were surprisingly cheap!), a few day trips to London, and in & around Bristol / Bath countless times. As a result I am much more familiar with the western side of their network. Now I'm at university in Oxford, and have started to explore the rest of it! Definitely my favourite TOC, but then maybe I'm a bit biased! Love this video! Clearly a lot of time and effort went into it, and it was worth it.

There used to be a direct train from Paddington to Fishguard Harbour. Need to change at Swansea now.

(The difference between a square, circle and hexagon symbol is quite hard to see ... rather than doing ① to show a train every two hours, it might be clearer to put ½ in a square) A few corrections to your map - excellently researched though it is! The Avocet Line (Exmouth to Paignton) is every 30 minutes, not every hour. Cardiff to Taunton is every hour, with some trains continuing on to Penzance. A small number of intercity trains call at Hungerford and Bedwyn. Between Penzance and Plymouth, there is a combined half-hourly service across the various different colours (not all stations served by all trains) - not sure how easy that would be to show on the map but it's useful to know! Apart from that, great work 👍🏻

That's one hell of a visualization! Damn good! New subscribers here

I live in Bath so now all our trains are GWR (we used to get 3 SWR trains a day to Waterloo, which were slower, but cheaper than GWR to Paddington and one Cross country train a day) and GWR generally operate a relatively alright service in my opinion. I also find the livery looks smart and modern but I like the retro advertising and the traditional out of changing the name from First Great Western to Great Western Railway

I think there is a slight mistake. It is two trains per hour to Oxford and one per hour continues to Great Malvern, and 5 per day continues to Hereford

This video does a great job showing the geographical spread and traction knowledge but there are a few inaccuracies - the most significant being the main route and GWML (both historically and frequency wise) is London to Bristol rather than London to Swansea, this is why the historical logo is City of London and Bristol city coats of arms. The "mainline" (route map name wise) is London to Penzance via Bristol. The 387 emus already run London to Swindon/Bristol Parkway/Cardiff, replacing cracked IETs and during sports events too There are evening services to and from Camarthen also.

London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads is the Great Western Mainline. Cardiff and Swansea is a branch off of the GWML

I've been on the train before from Gatwick to Redhill,Guildford.

I think GWR is the third largest toc in the UK after scotrail and northern.

There is also a Gloucester to Penzance about once every 2 hours

weston super mare and worle are very different because of the loop line, some trains skip the weston super mare loop and others dont, it can be a real pain in the arse

thanks .... lovely graphics (what software one ponders)

St Budeaux Ferry Road is on the Cornish main line, while St Budeaux Victoria Road is on the Tamar Valley line. No train can serve both stations.

Good video

I believe the once per weekday Brighton to Great Malvern train (and return) still runs, doesn't it? Such a brilliantly windy route that I must try it sometime. (BTW Malvern rhymes with 'all burn')

I can't wait for him to do Northern

Very good video. What sort of software do you use for this? Need to make something similar for a project

Nice

Can you do one on Northern

The mainline is London to Bristol Temple Meads, that's what's called the Great Western Mainline

Are GWR trains no longer operating routes to Brighton? They used to do 2 per day back when I was going to the University of Sussex in person from 2017-2020. I've never needed it but I'm sure someone would've found it useful.

How to pronounce the Tamar Valley line 101 : Tay-Mar, Va-Lee, Line

5:55 For something more expensive than that, add first class on top of that!

Please do WMT

Is there still a summer Saturday service to Pembroke Dock ?

GWR is probably the best private TOC

Isn't there a train to didcot parkway from Paddington that stops at Southall?

what software did you use to mak this map?

Has Great Western Railway started using the Class 769 Tri-Mode trains on the North Downs Line. GWR should inherit the Class 379 Electrostar to operate between London Paddington-Reading and Newbury and to work alongside with the Class 387/1. And some of the Class 387s that have been modified for Heathrow Express (Class 387/1a). Also I do think that electrification to Swansea should happen so that the Class 800 and Class 802 can run fully electric from London Paddington and from Didcot Parkway to Oxford. Plus I do think that GWR might lose the West Ealing-Greenford line and for London Overground to operate the Greenford shuttle with ordering new DMU/Hybrid-Battery trains.

This is incredibly complicated

I would like to know what you use to make the maps

You forgot about the 19 Class 769/9

Great video my only criticism/ ammendment is you need to look into is that none of the tocs ie GWR etc own any trians they sre owned by the Roscos. They absolutely are the reason rail fairs are so high and why tocs put on trains without enough carriages because renting the stock eats into the tocs profits. Roscos need to do and the government need to seize all the rolling stock for a better railway

Forgot Reading TMD

You spelt Port Talbot wrong... there isnt a "r" in the name, same with Castle Cary, the r and a re the wrong way around

Its castle bar park not castle bridge park

you forgot Brighton

Remember everyone: there are two ways of doing things: the wrong way or the Great Western way!

Hereford Hereford Hereford

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This asks you to be respectful, but it's very hard to be, when almost every time I travel by GWR the trains are either delayed, and more often now cancelled 😕, the company is laughable, you can no longer just go and catch a train without adding at least an extra hour to your journey, which makes planning anything very difficult. There taking the public for fools. In the last month, I have had 17 cancelled trains, 12 delayed trains, and 2 broken down train's, you simply cannot go on like this. I understand you get problems, but this is almost happening on a daily basis, very poor management skills in my opinion.

They need to fix their first class catering. It’s terrible.

They can't organize a piss up in a brewery