Great Western

Great Western can refer to:

  • The Great Western Railway, a United Kingdom railway company nationalised in 1948 and that has since lent its name to:
    • Great Western Main Line, a principal passenger and freight rail route
    • First Great Western, a major passenger train operator since 1998
    • Great Western Trains, a train operating company from 1996 to 1998
    • Great Western, one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
    • the Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust, providing services for South West England
    • the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, England
  • Great Western Railway (Ontario), originally of Canada West
  • Great Western Railway (Saskatchewan), a short line railway
  • Chicago Great Western Railway
  • SS Great Western, the first purpose-built trans-Atlantic steamship, 1838
  • The Great Western, an album by James Dean Bradfield
  • Great Western Brewing Company, located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  • Great Western Tiers, a collection of small mountain bluffs in Tasmania
  • Great Western Divide, a long ridge in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains
  • Great Western Bank, a now-defunct bank in the western United States
  • Great Western Bank (Midwest), a bank in the midwestern United States
  • Great Western, Victoria, a town in Australia
  • Sarah A. Bowman (1813?-1866), "Heroine of Fort Brown" (Texas) during Mexican–American War

Famous quotes containing the word western:

    “One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fibre of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardy.”
    —Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)