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Great Western Railway and Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway

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Difference between Great Western Railway and Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway

Great Western Railway vs. Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales. The Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway – almost always referred to as "the S&D" – was an English railway line connecting Bath in north east Somerset and Bournemouth now in south east Dorset but then in Hampshire, with a branch from Evercreech Junction to Burnham-on-Sea and Bridgwater.

Similarities between Great Western Railway and Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway

Great Western Railway and Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway have 22 things in common (in Unionpedia): Act of Parliament, Bristol, Bristol and Exeter Railway, Bristol Channel, British Rail, Broad-gauge railway, Charles Collett, Dual gauge, English Channel, Gloucester, Heritage railway, John Betjeman, London and South Western Railway, Midland Railway, Railways Act 1921, Severn Valley Railway, South Devon Railway (heritage railway), Standard-gauge railway, The Midlands, West Somerset Railway, Western Region of British Railways, Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway.

Act of Parliament

Acts of Parliament, also called primary legislation, are statutes passed by a parliament (legislature).

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Bristol

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.

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Bristol and Exeter Railway

The Bristol & Exeter Railway (B&ER) was an English railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter.

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Bristol Channel

The Bristol Channel (Môr Hafren) is a major inlet in the island of Great Britain, separating South Wales from Devon and Somerset in South West England.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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Broad-gauge railway

A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge broader than the standard-gauge railways.

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Charles Collett

Charles Benjamin Collett (10 September 1871 – 5 April 1952) was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway from 1922 to 1941.

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Dual gauge

A dual gauge railway is a track that allows the passage of trains of two different track gauges.

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English Channel

The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Gloucester

Gloucester is a city and district in Gloucestershire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Heritage railway

A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past.

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John Betjeman

Sir John Betjeman (28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".

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London and South Western Railway

The London and South Western Railway (LSWR) was a railway company in England from 1838 to 1922.

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Midland Railway

The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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Railways Act 1921

The Railways Act 1921 (c. 55), also known as the Grouping Act, was an Act of Parliament enacted by the British government and intended to stem the losses being made by many of the country's 120 railway companies, move the railways away from internal competition and retain some of the benefits which the country had derived from a government-controlled railway during and after the Great War of 1914–1918.

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Severn Valley Railway

The Severn Valley Railway is a heritage railway in Shropshire and Worcestershire, England.

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South Devon Railway (heritage railway)

The South Devon Railway is a heritage railway from Totnes to Buckfastleigh in Devon.

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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The Midlands

The Midlands is a cultural and geographic area roughly spanning central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia.

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West Somerset Railway

The West Somerset Railway (WSR) is a heritage railway line in Somerset, England.

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Western Region of British Railways

The Western Region was a region of British Railways from 1948.

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Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway

The Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway (WS&WR) obtained Parliamentary powers in 1845 to build a railway from near Chippenham to Salisbury and Weymouth.

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Great Western Railway and Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway Comparison

Great Western Railway has 280 relations, while Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway has 194. As they have in common 22, the Jaccard index is 4.64% = 22 / (280 + 194).

References

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