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:

    When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed
    And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,
    I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
    Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,
    Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,
    And thought of him I love.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)