Editing Great Western Railway (section)

===Key locations===
The railway's headquarters were established at Paddington station. Its locomotives and rolling stock were built and maintained at [[Swindon Works]]{{sfn|MacDermot|1927|at=Chapter 5}} but other workshops were acquired as it [[Consolidation (business)|amalgamated]] with other railways, including the Shrewsbury companies' [[Wolverhampton railway works|Stafford Road works]] at Wolverhampton,<ref name=Intro/> and the South Devon's workshops at [[Newton Abbot engine shed|Newton Abbot]].<ref>{{cite book| last = Sheppard| first = Geof| title = Broad Gauge Locomotives| publisher = Noodle Books| year = 2008| location = Southampton| isbn = 978-1-906419-09-7 | page=63}}</ref> [[Worcester Carriage Works]] was created by flattening land north of [[Worcester Shrub Hill railway station|Worcester Shrub Hill Station]],<ref>This subsequently closed after a major fire in 1864</ref> [[Reading Signal Works]] was established in buildings to the north of [[Reading railway station]],{{sfn|MacDermot|1931|at=Chapter 13}} and in later years a concrete manufacturing depot was established at {{Stnlnk|Taunton}} where items ranging from track components to bridges were cast.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Andrews | first = Julian | title = BR's Concrete Works at Taunton | journal = Modelling Railways Illustrated | volume = 4 | issue = 10 | pages = 462–464 | publisher = Model Media Publications | date = August 1997 | issn = 0969-7349 }}</ref>