Editing Great Western Railway (section)

===Tourism===
[[File:GWR book Camp Coach Holidays.jpg|thumb|right|alt=A stylised painting of a coast line in red and blue with the sea on the left and a railway coach on the right. At the top is the title "Camp-Coach Holidays", and at the bottom it says Novel and economical camping in comfort in selected beauty spots of Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and Wales"."|upright|1934 [[camp coach]] brochure]]
Cheap tickets were offered and excursion trains operated to popular destinations and special events such as the 1851 [[Great Exhibition]].<ref name=GoGW>{{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Roger Burdett |title=Go Great Western: a history of GWR publicity |date=1987 |publisher=David & Charles |location=Newton Abbot |isbn=0-946537-38-0 | pages=15, 129 |edition=2}}</ref> Later, [[GWR road motor services|GWR road motors]] operated tours to popular destinations not served directly by train, and its ships offered cruises from places such as Plymouth.<ref>{{cite journal| last = Bennett| first = Alan| title = Devon: A bold and beautiful prospect| journal = Backtrack| volume = 22| issue = 11| pages = 668–671| publisher = Pendragon  | year = 2008}}</ref> Redundant carriages were converted to [[camp coach]]es<!--GWR called them CAMP coaches, NOT campING coaches (see camping coach article)--> and placed at country or seaside stations such as {{Stnlnk|Blue Anchor}} and {{Stnlnk|Marazion}} and hired to holidaymakers who arrived by train.<ref>{{cite book|last=Fenton|first=Mike|title=Camp Coach Holidays on the G.W.R|publisher=Wild Swan|year=1999 |isbn=1-874103-53-4 |page=11}}</ref>

The GWR had operated hotels at major stations and junctions since the early days, but in 1877 it opened its first "country house hotel", the [[Tregenna Castle]] in [[St Ives, Cornwall]].{{sfn|MacDermot|1931|at=Chapter 13}} It later added the Fishguard Bay Hotel in Wales and the Manor House at [[Moretonhampstead]], Devon, to which it added a [[golf course]] in 1930.<ref name=GWCentenaryA/>

It promoted itself from 1908 as "The Holiday Line{{sfn|Wilson|1987|pages=24–27}} through a series of posters, [[postcard]]s, [[jigsaw puzzle]]s, and books. These included ''Holiday Haunts'', describing the attraction of the different parts of the GWR system,{{sfn|Wilson|1987|pages=104–121}} and regional titles such as [[S. P. B. Mais]]'s ''Cornish Riviera'' and A. M. Bradley's ''South Wales: The Country of Castles''. Guidebooks described the scenery seen ''Through the Window'' of their trains. Other GWR books were designed to encourage an interest in the GWR itself. Published as "Books for Boys of All Ages", these included ''The 10:30 Limited'' and ''Loco's of the Royal Road''.{{sfn|Wilson|1987|pages=83–103}}

The Great Western Railway effectively created the modern day tourist spots of the [[West Country]] and the southwest part of [[Wales]] that had previously been very difficult to reach. The Bristol Channel resorts of Wales and the West Country such as [[Minehead]] or the cliffs of [[Exmoor]] had been very remote from other parts of England before the advent of the GWR.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Walton|first1=John K.|title=The British Seaside: Holidays and Resorts in the Twentieth Century|date=2000|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-5170-8 |page=74|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uydACzcGjQEC&q=Great+Western+Railway+remote+west+country+tourism+line&pg=PA74|access-date=29 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306124232/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uydACzcGjQEC&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&dq=Great+Western+Railway+remote+west+country+tourism+line&source=bl&ots=DgKVdU5laK&sig=lHTzTVjjJwzkimS6TJaBVp-h1uM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBTgKahUKEwjPkfjiiOjIAhWDaxQKHXkmCt0#v=onepage&q=Great%20Western%20Railway%20remote%20west%20country%20tourism%20line&f=false|archive-date=6 March 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
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