An excellent original group of 13 Great Western Railway timetable / Guide to Train Times publications covering the Central Area of the GWR network, dating from 2015–2016.

These are particularly attractive examples from the early GWR green-branding period and, importantly, appear to be uncirculated stock: they have evidently been collected direct from station/ticket-office supplies and carefully stored rather than carried around and used by passengers. As a result, the overall condition is excellent, with only the very minor handling/storage imperfections one would expect of paper timetable material of this type. Please study the photographs, which form part of the description.

TIMETABLES INCLUDED – IN DATE/REFERENCE ORDER

13 December 2015 to 14 May 2016
• C1 – London Paddington to Bristol, Cheltenham Spa and South Wales
• C1a – London Paddington to Bristol and South Wales
• C2 – London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa
• C3a – Cardiff and Bristol to the South Coast
• C4 – Cardiff and Bristol to Weston-super-Mare, Taunton and Exeter

15 May to 10 December 2016
• C1 – London Paddington to Bristol, Cheltenham Spa and South Wales
• C1a – London Paddington to Bristol and South Wales
• C2 – London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa
• C3a – Cardiff and Bristol to the South Coast
• C4 – Cardiff and Bristol to Weston-super-Mare, Taunton and Exeter
• C5 – Bristol to Gloucester, Cheltenham Spa and the Malverns
• C6 – Bristol to Severn Beach – The Severn Beach Line
• C7 – Bristol Temple Meads to Cardiff Central

There are 13 timetables in total. Where the same route/reference occurs more than once, these are different timetable issues/date periods rather than simply unwanted identical duplicates. The photographs show the actual group offered and allow the individual reference numbers, route diagrams and validity dates to be seen.

Together they make a particularly nice snapshot of GWR’s Central Area passenger network at the beginning of the modern Great Western Railway branding era.

The route diagrams themselves give the lot additional interest, covering a remarkably broad area: London Paddington, Reading, Swindon, Bristol, Bath Spa, Cardiff, South Wales, Cheltenham Spa, Gloucester, Worcester, the Malverns, Weston-super-Mare, Taunton, Exeter, the Severn Beach branch and the routes towards the South Coast.

These modern pocket and regional timetables were essentially ephemeral working publications, intended to be picked up, used for a few months and discarded when superseded. Complete groups in exceptionally clean, apparently uncirculated condition are therefore increasingly attractive to timetable collectors, GWR enthusiasts and anyone assembling a record of the changing post-privatisation railway.

A very presentable ready-made collection rather than a miscellaneous bundle of heavily used timetables.

Please see all photographs for the exact contents, dates, references and condition of the 13 items included.

You’re welcome to view and collect from us, SK13 8EQ. Please contact us beforehand.

Many thanks for looking.