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 (18191892)