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GWR Omnibus Services and Garage at Stroud by Ray Wilson
The Great Western Railway were early pioneers of omnibus services to test the market for a new railway. In 1905 they inaugurated a service to The Falcon Hotel at Painswick from Stroud Station and built this garage there for their buses.
The GWR bus garage at Stroud Railway Station in April 1990