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Wsr
WSR may refer to: * Warren and Saline River Railroad in Arkansas, United States * Water speed record * Weather surveillance radar * West Somerset Railway in England * West Surrey Racing, a UK-based motorsport team * West Sussex Railway in England * ''Wii Sports Resort'', a 2009 sports video game developed and published by Nintendo * National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, Wild and Scenic River, a federal lands designation in the United States * Woodsmoor railway station (UK railway station code WSR) * World Series by Renault * Waist-to-stature ratio * Windows Speech Recognition — a speech recognition component introduced in Windows Vista {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Somerset Railway
The West Somerset Railway (WSR) is a heritage railway line in Somerset, England. The freehold of the line and stations is owned by Somerset County Council; the railway is leased to and operated by West Somerset Railway plc (WSR plc); which is supported and minority-owned by charitable trust the West Somerset Railway Association (WSRA) and the West Somerset Steam Railway Trust (WSSRT). The WSR plc operates services using both heritage steam and diesel trains. It originally opened in 1862 between and . In 1874 it was extended from Watchet to by the Minehead Railway. Although just a single line, improvements were needed in the first half of the twentieth century to accommodate the significant number of tourists that wished to travel to the Somerset coast. The line was closed by British Rail in 1971 and reopened in 1976 as a heritage line. It is the longest standard gauge independent heritage railway in the United Kingdom. Services normally operate over just the between Mine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
