Dear All,
This link on the history of the Great Western railway (UK) may be of interest
http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r010.html
Regards
Frank McAree
E & R Shanahan wrote:
> Are there any railway buffs on the local history list?
> I have another query that some members may be able to help me with - I
> have just found out that my great grandfather was listed in the 1881 census
> as living in Friar Street Reading, and being a 'railway labourer'. Does
> anyone know which railway would have been built around that area at that
> time ? The Great Western went from Paddington to the west country, and I
> think it went through Reading, but was it at that time ?
>
> Any help gratefully received
>
> Eunice in Queensland.
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