List of constituents of the Great Western Railway

Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...

(GWR) was incorporated by Act of Parliament

Act of Parliament

An Act of Parliament is a statute enacted as primary legislation by a national or sub-national parliament. In the Republic of Ireland the term Act of the Oireachtas is used, and in the United States the term Act of Congress is used.In Commonwealth countries, the term is used both in a narrow...

in 1835 and Nationalised on 1 January 1948. During this time it amalgamated

Consolidation (business)

Consolidation or amalgamation is the act of merging many things into one. In business, it often refers to the mergers and acquisitions of many smaller companies into much larger ones. In the context of financial accounting, consolidation refers to the aggregation of financial statements of a group...

with, or purchased outright, many other railway companies. These are listed here in two groups. The early amalgamations (mostly between 1843 and 1900) were often railway companies that were already financially supported by the GWR. The Railways Act 1921

Railways Act 1921

The Railways Act 1921, also known as the Grouping Act, was an enactment by the British government of David Lloyd George intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition, and to retain some of the benefits which...

brought many new companies into the fold including many successful Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

lines.

Key: – the date that the company was amalgamated into, or purchased by, the GWR.

♠ – Companies that were already operated by or leased to the GWR or one of the other absorbed railways before amalgamation. Note: This list is incomplete.

♥ – Companies operating wholly or partly on the broad gauge

Broad gauge

Broad-gauge railways use a track gauge greater than the standard gauge of .- List :For list see: List of broad gauges, by gauge and country- History :...

at the time that they combined with the GWR. The broad gauge was finally abandoned on 21 May 1892.

Early amalgamations and purchases

Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway
Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway
The Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway was a broad gauge railway that linked the Great Western Railway at Swindon, Wiltshire, with Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England...

(1 July 1843)♠♥
Berks and Hants Railway (1846)♠♥
Monmouth and Hereford Railway (1846)
Oxford and Rugby Railway (1846)♠♥
Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway
Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway
The Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway was a broad gauge railway that linked the Great Western Railway at Chippenham in 'Wilts' with Weymouth in Dorset, England. Branches ran to Devizes, Bradford-on-Avon and Salisbury in Wiltshire, and to Radstock in Somerset. The majority of the line survives...

(14 March 1850)♠♥
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway
The Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway opened on 12 November 1849. It merged with the Great Western Railway on 1 September 1854.The company formed originally as the Shrewsbury & Wolverhampton, Dudley & Birmingham Railway in 1844, it became Shrewsbury & Birmingham Railway in 1847.When the section...

(1 September 1854)
Shrewsbury and Chester Railway (1 September 1854)
Birkenhead Railway
Birkenhead Railway
The Birkenhead Railway was formed on 1 August 1859 as a result of the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Railway merging with the Chester and Birkenhead Railway. The new company was originally called the Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway, but in 1859 shortened its name to The...

(1 January 1860)
- Chester and Birkenhead Railway
  Chester and Birkenhead Railway
  The Chester and Birkenhead Railway ran from Birkenhead to Chester. It opened on 23 September 1838. On the 22 July 1847 it merged with the Birkenhead, Lancaster and Cheshire Junction Railway to become the Birkenhead Railway.-Currently Working:...
- Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway
South Wales Railway
South Wales Railway
The South Wales Railway was a broad gauge railway that linked the Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway with Neyland in Wales.-History:The need for the railway was created by the need to ship coal from the South Wales Valleys to London, and secondly to complete Brunel's vision of linking London with...

(1 January 1862)♠♥
West Midland Railway (1 August 1863)
- Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
  Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway
  The Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway was a railway line connecting the Welsh port city of Newport via Abergavenny, to the major English market town of Hereford.Sponsored by the LNWR, it opened on 6 December 1853...
- Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
  Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
  The Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton railway was a company authorised on 4 August 1845 to construct a railway line from the Oxford and Rugby Railway at Wolvercot Junction to Worcester, Stourbridge, Dudley, and Wolverhampton, with a branch to the Grand Junction Railway at Bushbury...
- Worcester and Hereford Railway
Vale of Neath Railway
Vale of Neath Railway
The Vale of Neath Railway was a broad gauge railway line from Neath to Merthyr Tydfil, in Glamorgan, Wales, and also operated the Swansea and Neath Railway which gave it access to the docks at Swansea...

(1 February 1865)♥
- Aberdare Valley Railway
Forest of Dean Central Railway
Forest of Dean Central Railway
The Forest of Dean Central Railway was a short line in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. It was built to serve the collieries in the heart of the forest. From its opening in 1868, the line was operated by the Great Western Railway and run by the Central Company until 1923...

(1866)
Wycombe Railway
Wycombe Railway
The Wycombe Railway was a British railway between and that connected with the Great Western Railway at both ends; there was one branch, to .-History:The Wycombe Railway Company was incorporated by an act of Parliament passed in 1846...

(1867)♠
Bristol and South Wales Union Railway
Bristol and South Wales Union Railway
The Bristol and South Wales Union Railway was built to connect Bristol, England, with south Wales. The route involved a ferry crossing of the River Severn but was considerably shorter than the alternative route through Gloucester...

(1868)♠♥
Tenbury and Bewdley Railway (1869)
Stourbridge Railway (1 February 1870)
Wrexham and Minera Railway (1871)
Great Western and Brentford Railway (1872)♠
Wallingford and Watlington Railway (1872)
Llanelly Railway (1 January 1873)
Llynvi and Ogmore Railway
Llynvi and Ogmore Railway
* Ada * Una The railway owned two 0-6-0STs for goods traffic. Built by Slaughter, Grunning and Company, they were similar to the South Devon Railway Dido class built at around the same time....

(1 July 1873)
- Llynvi Valley Railway
- Ogmore Valley Railway
East Somerset Railway
East Somerset Railway
The East Somerset Railway is a heritage railway in Somerset, running between Cranmore and Mendip Vale. Prior to the Beeching Axe, the railway ran from Witham to Wells, meeting both the Cheddar Valley line and Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway at the latter station.- History :The line was...

(1874)♠
Monmouthshire Railway (1 August 1875)
Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway (1875)♠
Bristol and Exeter Railway
Bristol and Exeter Railway
The Bristol & Exeter Railway was a railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter.The company's head office was situated outside their Bristol station...

(1 January 1876)♥
South Devon Railway
South Devon Railway
South Devon Railway could mean:* South Devon Railway Company - the company that built the railway from Exeter to Plymouth* South Devon Railway Trust - the heritage railway from Totnes to BuckfastleighOther heritage railways in South Devon include:...

(1 February 1876)♥
- Dartmouth and Torbay Railway
  Dartmouth and Torbay Railway
  The Dartmouth and Torbay Railway was a broad gauge railway linking the South Devon Railway branch at Torquay with Kingswear in Devon, England. It was operated from the outset by the South Devon Railway....
- Launceston and South Devon Railway
- Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway
  Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway
  The Moretonhampstead and South Devon Railway was a broad gauge railway which linked the South Devon Railway at Newton Abbot railway station with Bovey Tracey and Moretonhampstead, Devon, England.-History of the line:...
- South Devon and Tavistock Railway
  South Devon and Tavistock Railway
  The South Devon and Tavistock Railway was a broad gauge railway linking Plymouth with Tavistock in Devon, England. It opened in 1859, was extended by the Launceston and South Devon Railway to Launceston, Cornwall, in 1865, and was closed in 1962....
West Cornwall Railway
West Cornwall Railway
The West Cornwall Railway was a railway company in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, formed in 1846 to operate the existing Hayle Railway between Hayle and Redruth and extend the railway to Penzance and Truro....

(1 February 1876)♥
- Hayle Railway
  Hayle Railway
  The Hayle Railway was an early Cornish railway, built to standard gauge, and opened in 1837. The railway served the engineering works and copper quays at Hayle with the copper mines of Redruth and Camborne carrying ore to the port and coal to the mines, before the construction of the Saltash Bridge...
Wellington and Drayton Railway (30 August 1877)♠
Culm Valley Light Railway (1880)♠
Malmsbury Railway (1880)♠
Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway
Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway
The Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway was a broad gauge railway from Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, to Newcastle Emlyn, Wales. Part of the route is now used by the Teifi Valley Railway and the Gwili Railway.Despite the name, the line never reached Cardigan...

(1 July 1882)
Berks and Hants Extension Railway (1882)♠
Torbay and Brixham Railway
Torbay and Brixham Railway
The Torbay and Brixham Railway was a broad gauge railway which linked the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway at Churston railway station, Devon with the important fishing port of Brixham...

(1 January 1883)♥
Festiniog and Blaenau Railway
Festiniog and Blaenau Railway
The Festiniog & Blaenau Railway was a narrow gauge railway built in 1868 to connect the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog with the slate quarries around Tanymanod and the smaller town of Llan Ffestiniog. At Blaenau Ffestiniog it made a direct connection with the Ffestiniog Railway with which it was...

(10 September 1883)
Stratford-on-Avon Railway (1883)
Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway
Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway
The Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway was a railway branch line between Watlington and Princes Risborough which remained operational for over 88 years between 1872 and 1961....

(1 January 1884)
Whitland and Cardigan Railway (1 September 1886)
Faringdon Railway (1886)
Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway
Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway
The Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway was a long Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway Company built single track branch railway line that ran between a junction near Bransford Road on the West Midland Railway line south of Worcester to the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway line south...

(1888)
Cornwall Railway
Cornwall Railway
The Cornwall Railway was a broad gauge railway from Plymouth in Devon to Falmouth in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The section from Plymouth to Truro opened in 1859, the extension to Falmouth in 1863...

(1 July 1889)♥
Newent Railway (1892)
Ross and Ledbury Railway (1892)
Wellington and Severn Junction Railway
Wellington and Severn Junction railway
The Wellington and Severn Junction railway was a railway in Shropshire, England. It was built between 1857 - 1861 and formed part of the Wellington to Craven Arms Railway. For much of its working life it was operated by the Great Western Railway and subsequently the Western Region of British Railways...

(1892)
Cornwall Minerals Railway
Cornwall Minerals Railway
The Cornwall Minerals Railway operated a network of railway lines in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Based at St Blazey, its network stretched from Fowey to Newquay and lasted as an independent company from 1874 to 1896, after which it became a part of the Great Western Railway.-Authorisation:The...

(1 July 1896)♠
- Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway
  Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway
  The Lostwithiel and Fowey Railway opened in 1869 as a broad gauge railway and links the port of Fowey in Cornwall with the Cornish Main Line at Lostwithiel...
- Newquay and Cornwall Junction Railway
  Newquay and Cornwall Junction Railway
  The Newquay and Cornwall Junction Railway was a broad gauge railway intended to link the Cornwall Railway with the horse-worked Newquay Railway. It opened a short section to Nanpean in 1869, the remainder being built by the Cornwall Minerals Railway who took over the company in 1874...
- Newquay Railway
- Par
  Par, Cornwall
  Par is a town and fishing port with a harbour on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The town is situated in the civil parish of Tywardreath and Par and is approximately east of St Austell. Par has a population of around 1,400.....
  
  Tramway
Pembroke and Tenby Railway (1 July 1896)
Calne Railway (1896)♠
Corwen and Bala Railway (1896)
Llangollen and Corwen Railway
Llangollen and Corwen railway
The Llangollen and Corwen Railway was formed as a continuation of the Vale of Llangollen Railway to continue the line along the Dee Valley a further to Corwen. This was opened on 1 May 1865 and was worked by the Great Western Railway and subsequently the Western Region of British Railways.A...

(1896)
Marlborough Railway (1896)
Milford Railway (1896)
Wenlock Railway (1896)
Vale of Llangollen Railway
Vale of Llangollen Railway
The Vale of Llangollen Railway was built as a spur from the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway at Ruabon to the town of Llangollen. It was initially opened for goods only on 1 December 1861 and to passenger traffic on 2 June 1862, and was worked by the Great Western Railway and subsequently the Western...

(1896)
Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway
Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway
The Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway is a former railway in the Cotswold Hills in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, England.-Origins and development:...

(1897)
Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway
Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway
The Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway built the broad gauge railway line from Totnes to Buckfastleigh and Ashburton in Devon, England.-History:...

(1897)
Kington and Eadisley Railway (1897)
Minehead Railway (1897)♠
Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway (1897)♠
North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway
North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway
The North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway was a British railway company operating in Wales in the late 19th century.-History:The company started off as the Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway which was opened between Narberth Road and Rosebush, north of Maenclochog, on 19th September 1876.In...

(1 July 1898)
- Maenclochog Railway
- North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway
  North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway
  The North Pembrokeshire and Fishguard Railway was a British railway company operating in Wales in the late 19th century.-History:The company started off as the Narberth Road and Maenclochog Railway which was opened between Narberth Road and Rosebush, north of Maenclochog, on 19th September 1876.In...
Helston Railway (1898)♠
Leominster and Kington Railway
Leominster and Kington Railway
Leominster and Kington Railway was one of four branches which served the Welsh Marches border town of Kington, Herefordshire.Opened in August 1857, its peak was during World War II, when it served two US Army hospitals...

(1898)
Staines and West Drayton Railway
Staines and West Drayton Railway
The Staines & West Drayton Railway is a former railway on the western edge of London, England. It was about 5½ miles long and ran roughly north-south along the River Colne. It opened from West Drayton on the Great Western Main Line to Colnbrook in 1884 and reached Staines the next year...

(1900)♠
Golden Valley Railway
Golden Valley Railway
The Golden Valley Railway was a 19-mile-long single-track branch railway line that ran along the valley of the River Dore from in Herefordshire, England, to Hay on Wye in Brecknockshire, Wales , via six intermediate stations at Abbey Dore, Vowchurch, Peterchurch, Dorstone, Westbrook, and...

(Pontrilas to Hay Junction) (1 May 1901)♠
Bridport Railway (1901)♠
Devon and Somerset Railway
Devon and Somerset Railway
The Devon and Somerset Railway was a branch line from near in Somerset to in North Devon. It was operated from the outset by the Bristol and Exeter Railway which became part of the Great Western Railway on 1 January 1876.-History:...

(1901)♠
Ely Valley Railway
Ely Valley Railway
The Ely Valley Railway was a small railway in south Wales, which was originally operated as part of the Great Western Railway system and later absorbed by that company...

(South Wales) (1903)
Wye Valley Railway
Wye Valley Railway
The Wye Valley Railway was a standard gauge railway that ran for nearly between Chepstow and Monmouth along the lower part of the scenic Wye Valley in Monmouthshire, Wales, and Gloucestershire, England. It followed the route of the River Wye for most of its length...

(1905)
Lambourn Valley Railway (1 July 1906)
Manchester and Milford Railway (1 July 1907)
Bala and Festiniog Railway (1910)

1921 Railways Act

The following companies were absorbed into the Great Western Railway as a result of the Railways Act 1921

Railways Act 1921

, however they were incorporated into the new larger business on the different dates shown.

Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway (1 January 1922) 10.5 miles (17 km)
Barry Railway (1 January 1922) 68 miles (109 km)
- Vale of Glamorgan Railway
  Vale of Glamorgan Railway
  The Barry Tourist Railway is a railway developed to attract visitors to Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales...
  
  20.75 miles (33 km♠)
Cambrian Railways
Cambrian Railways
Cambrian Railways owned of track over a large area of mid-Wales. The system was an amalgamation of a number of railways that were incorporated in 1864, 1865 and 1904...

(1 January 1922) 295.25 miles (472 km)
- Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway
  Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway
  The Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway was a standard gauge railway built in 1863 connecting major towns on the Welsh coast.- History :...
- Llanidloes and Newtown Railway
  Llanidloes and Newtown Railway
  The Llanidloes and Newtown Railway was an early Welsh railway. It was absorbed by the Cambrian Railway. A section of the line - from Newtown to where the later Cambrian Line diverges to Machynlleth, at the former Moat Lane Junction, remains in use...
- Mawddwy Light Railway ♠
- Mid-Wales Railway
  Mid-Wales Railway
  -Company Formation and Parliamentary authorisation:The company was formed in 1859 and parliamentary approval was received on 1 August for the northern section of the line from Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire to Llandovery, Carmarthenshire...
- Newtown and Machynlleth Railway
- Oswestry, Ellesmere and Whitchurch Railway
- Oswestry and Newtown Railway
- Tanat Valley Light Railway
  Tanat Valley Light Railway
  The Tanat Valley Light Railway was a long standard gauge light railway connecting Llangynog with Blodwel in Wales. It opened in 1903 and closed in January 1964.-History:...
- Vale of Rheidol Railway
  Vale of Rheidol Railway
  The Vale of Rheidol Railway is a narrow-gauge gauge heritage railway that runs for between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge in the county of Ceredigion, Wales...
- Van Railway
  Van Railway
  The Van Railway was a standard gauge railway in mid Wales. The line was built in 1871 to link the highly productive lead mines at Van, near Llanidloes to the main Cambrian line at Caersws. The mines closed in 1920, but the railway remained open until 1940....
  
  ♠
- Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway
  Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway
  The Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway in Powys, Wales. The line is around long and runs westwards from the town of Welshpool via Castle Caereinion to the village of Llanfair Caereinion. The track gauge is ....
  
  ♠
- Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway ♠
Cardiff Railway
Cardiff Railway
The Cardiff Railway came into being from the need to service Bute Docks, so as to provide facilities for the traffic to and from the Docks. The railway was only 11 miles in length, a fact which belied its importance, since it provided both the Taff Vale Railway and the Rhymney Railway, inter alia,...

(1 January 1922) 11.75 miles (19 km)
Cleobury, Mortimer and Ditton Priors Railway (1 January 1922) 12 miles (19 km)
Port Talbot Railway (1 January 1922) 35 miles (56 km)
- South Wales Mineral Railway 13 miles (21 km♠)
Princetown Railway
Princetown Railway
The Princetown Railway was a 10.5 mile long Great Western Railway built single track branch railway line in Devon, England, that ran from and later from , both on the South Devon and Tavistock line, to via four intermediate stations, , , and .-History:...

(1922) 10.5 miles (17 km)
Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway
Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway
The Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway connected the coal mines of the Rhondda Valley to the Swansea Bay ports.Connecting with the Taff Vale Railway at Treherbert, it had branches to Aberavon and Port Talbot docks. It was later extended to Swansea and a branch to Neath was added, bringing the total...

(1 January 1922) 29 miles (46 km)
Rhymney Railway
Rhymney Railway
The Rhymney Railway was virtually a single stretch of main line, some fifty miles in length, by which the Rhymney Valley was connected to the docks at Cardiff in the county of Glamorgan, South Wales.-History:...

(1 January 1922) 51 miles (82 km)
Taff Vale Railway
Taff Vale Railway
The Taff Vale Railway is a railway in Glamorgan, South Wales, and is one of the oldest in Wales. It operated as an independent company from 1836 until 1922, when it became a constituent company of the Great Western Railway...

(1 January 1922) 124.5 miles (199 km)
- Penarth Extension Railway 1.75 miles (3 km♠)
- Penarth Harbour, Dock and Railway 9.75 miles (16 km♠)
West Somerset Railway
West Somerset Railway
The West Somerset Railway is a railway line that originally linked and in Somerset, England.It opened in 1862 and was extended from Watchet to by the Minehead Railway in 1874. Although just a single track, improvements were needed in the first half of the twentieth century to accommodate the...

(1922) 14.5 miles (23 km♠)
Brecon and Merthyr Railway
Brecon and Merthyr Railway
The Brecon and Merthyr Junction Railway was one of several railways that served the industrial areas of South Wales and Monmouthshire. It ranked fifth amongst them in size, although hemmed in by the Taff Vale Railway and Great Western Railway...

(1 July 1922) 59.75 miles (97 km)
Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway (1 July 1922) 21 miles (34 km)
Neath and Brecon Railway
Neath and Brecon Railway
The Neath and Brecon Railway linked the Vale of Neath Railway at Neath with the Brecon and Merthyr Railway at Brecon and also via a connection from Colbren Junction, it linked to the Swansea Vale Railway at Ynysygeinon Junction ....

(1 July 1922)
Gwendraeth Valley Railways (1 January 1923) 3 miles (5 km♠)
Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway (1 January 1923) 13 miles (21 km)
Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway
Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway
The Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway was a cross-country railway running north-south between Didcot, Newbury and Southampton although it actually reached the latter by running over the London and South Western Railway tracks from Shawford Junction, south of Winchester...

(1923) 42.75 miles (68 km♠)
Midland and South Western Junction Railway
Midland and South Western Junction Railway
The Midland and South Western Junction Railway was, until the 1923 Grouping, an independent railway built to form a north-south link between the Midland and London and South Western Railways allowing the Midland and other companies' trains to reach the port of Southampton.-Formation:The M&SWJR...

(1 July 1923) 63.25 miles (101 km)
Swansea Harbour Trust (1 July 1923)
Powlesland and Mason (railway shunting contractors)
Powlesland and Mason (railway shunting contractors)
Powlesland and Mason were a company that provided steam locomotives and crews for shunting within Swansea Docks. The first name has sometimes been spelt "Powesland" and it is uncertain which spelling is correct.-Early history:...

(contractors at Swansea Docks) (1 January 1924)
East Gloucestershire Railway 25.5 miles (41 km♠)
Exeter Railway 8.75 miles (14 km♠)
Forest of Dean Central Railway
Forest of Dean Central Railway
The Forest of Dean Central Railway was a short line in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. It was built to serve the collieries in the heart of the forest. From its opening in 1868, the line was operated by the Great Western Railway and run by the Central Company until 1923...

5 miles (8 km♠)
Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway
Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway
The Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway was a branch of the Carmarthen Aberystwyth Line in west Wales. It ran between the seaside town of Aberaeron and Lampeter...

12 miles (19 km♠)
Liskeard and Looe Railway 9 miles (14 km♠)
Ross and Monmouth Railway
Ross and Monmouth Railway
The Ross and Monmouth Railway was a standard gauge railway of which ran between Ross-on-Wye and Monmouth....

12.5 miles (20 km♠)
Teign Valley Railway 7.75 miles (12 km♠)

Early amalgamations and purchases

1921 Railways Act

See also