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Description: | Pressed and stamped three-part hollow domed brass button with separate soldered attachment loop, embossed with the crowned letters GWR, for Great Western Railway, within a wreath. The backmark is stamped 'AMPTON' from Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, which was the address for button makers Green, Cadbury and Richards, from 1860-1876. The button is a coat button from a GWR railway guard's uniform.The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838. The GWR was the only company to keep its identity through the Railways Act 1921, which amalgamated it with the remaining independent railways within its territory, and it was finally merged at the end of 1947 when it was nationalised and became the Western Region of British Railways.Meredith & Cuddeford (1997) illustrate a similar uniform button for senior staff of the Great Western & Midland Railway on page 19, No.1, which is dated from the late Victorian period.
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