Services
Great Western Trains operated InterCity services from London Paddington to the Cotswolds, West of England, South West England and South Wales and an overnight sleeper service from London Paddington to Penzance.
Soon after privatisation, Great Western pioneered the mobile phone-free quiet carriage, as well as a dedicated family carriage at weekends and holiday periods.
A franchise commitment was to reintroduce a Motorail service to carry passengers' cars between London and south west England which was eventually introduced after the sale of the company to FirstGroup.
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“Men will say that in supporting their wives, in furnishing them with houses and food and clothes, they are giving the women as much money as they could ever hope to earn by any other profession. I grant it; but between the independent wage-earner and the one who is given his keep for his services is the difference between the free-born and the chattel.”
—Elizabeth M. Gilmer (1861–1951)
“It seems I impregnated Marge
So I do rather feel, by and large,
Some cash should be tendered
For services rendered,
But I can’t quite decide what to charge.”
—Anonymous.
“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list—the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)