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.

List of Great Western Railway heritage sites

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 – , Worcestershire to , 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

List of Great Western Railway heritage sites

Museums

These museums have a GWR theme or are located in old GWR buildings.

List of Great Western Railway heritage sites

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.

Grade I listed

Avon Bridge, Bristol

Bristol Temple Meads railway station

London Paddington station

Maidenhead Railway Bridge, Berkshire

Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, Cornwall

Starcross pumping house, Devon

Grade II* listed

Bath Spa railway station, Somerset

Box Tunnel, Wiltshire

Bridgwater railway station, Somerset

Bristol & Exeter Railway Headquarters, Temple Meads, Bristol

Chippenham viaduct, Wiltshire

Maidenhead Railway Bridge, Buckinghamshire

Moorswater Viaduct, Liskeard, Cornwall

Mortimer railway station, Berkshire

Parrett Bridge, Bridgwater, Somerset

Swindon railway works, Wiltshire (some buildings listed Grade II) Windsor Railway Bridge, Berkshire Worcester Shrub Hill railway station, Worcestershire