Great Western
Great Western can refer to:
Locations
- Great Western, a town in Victoria, Australia
- Great Western Divide, a long ridge in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains, USA
- Great Western Mountain, a mountain in central Sri Lanka
- Great Western Tiers, a collection of small mountain bluffs in Tasmania, Australia
Railways
- 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
- Great Western Railway (train operating company), has operated the Great Western franchise since 1996, traded as Great Western Trains until 1998 then First Great Western until 2015
- Great Western Holdings, a company formed in 1994 to bid for the Great Western franchise, successfully
- Great Western, one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway
- Great Western Railway (Ontario), originally of Canada West
- Great Western Railway (Saskatchewan), a short line railway in Canada
- Chicago Great Western Railway in the USA
- Great Western Railroad (Illinois) (1853-1865) predecessor of the Wabash Railroad in the USA
- Great Western Railroad (Ohio) in the USA
- Great Western Railway of Colorado
Businesses and organisations
- Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust, providing services for South West England
- 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 Brewing Company, located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Great Western Hospital in Swindon, England
- Great Western Hotel (disambiguation), several hotels
- Great Western Mine, a coal mine in South Wales, UK
- Great Western Mine, a mercury mine in California, USA
- Great Western Sugar Company, a sugar company headquartered in Denver, Colorado
Other
- Sarah A. Bowman (1813?-1866), "Heroine of Fort Brown" (Texas) during Mexican–American War, nicknamed "The Great Western"
- SS Great Western, the first purpose-built trans-Atlantic steamship, 1838
- The Great Western, an album by James Dean Bradfield
- The Great Western Chorus of Bristol, a men's a cappella chorus singing primarily in the Barbershop style
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