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Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway

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The award-winning Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway (GWR) is a volunteer run organisation that has reopened the closed railway line between Toddington, Gloucestershire, and Cheltenham Racecourse. It has future plans to extend to Broadway, Warwickshire. The line was originally part of the Great Western Railway's Cheltenham to Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham line, which was built in 1900-06, and runs through the local Cotswold towns of Winchcombe, and Bishops Cleeve. The line was closed after a train derailment in 1976. The preservation group rehabilitated the line, starting steam train operations in 1984. This culminated with the reopening of the line to Cheltenham Racecourse in 2003, by HRH Anne, Princess Royal. The railway operates a wide variety of both steam and heritage diesel locomotives. These have included the world famous engine 4472 "Flying Scotsman" and 3440 "City of Truro", which was reputedly the first engine to reach 100 mph in 1904.