The railway's headquarters were established at Paddington station. Its locomotives and rolling stock were built and maintained at Swindon Works[1] but other workshops were acquired as it amalgamated with other railways, including the Shrewsbury companies' Stafford Road works at Wolverhampton,[2] and the South Devon's workshops at Newton Abbot.[49] Worcester Carriage Works was created by flattening land north of Worcester Shrub Hill Station,[50] Reading Signal Works was established in buildings to the north of Reading railway station,[51] and in later years a concrete manufacturing depot was established at Taunton where items ranging from track components to bridges were cast.[52]