Great Western Railway Paddington Band
Concerts
Great Western Railway
Paddington Station Band
The Great Western Railway and Paddington Borough Prize Silver Band was established
long before 1923. The Great Western Railway Staff Military Band was founded about this
time and would give Concerts on the Station Lawn. The Great Western Railway was
nationalised in 1948 to become British Railway Western Region and during the 1990s
was privatised to become Network Rail and First Great Western.
Celebrating 201 years of travel by train in Great Britain
Friday Evening Band Concerts 7.30 - 9.00pm in the Station
A different and varied Programme is performed each week of Marches,
Selections from the Shows,
arrangements from the Classics and Popular Tunes.
For Band information visit
www.paddingtonrailwayband.co.uk
Summer Evening Concert for Friday 17 July 2026.
Conductor - Nick Charles
The Performance will be selected from the Programme shown below
Father Rhine - Concert March
Paul Lincke
The Yeoman of the Guard - Overture
Arthur Sullivan
Belle of the Ball - Waltz
Leroy Anderson
Five Minutes with Cole Porter
arr W J Duthoit
Sweet Caroline
Neil Diamond
The Dambusters March
Eric Coates
Down By The Riverside
Jerome Naulias
1970 Back Home
Edrich Siebert
Five Minutes with Jerome Kern
arr W J Duthoit
The Blue and the Gray
Clare Grundman
Les Miserables
arr Warren Barker
Fandango
Frank Perkins
Blaze Away - March
Abe Holzmann