Isambard Kingdom Brunel, England’s most famous railway engineer, had a dream: passengers would travel from all over the world to the heart of London and alight at Paddington Station, the terminus of the Great Western Railway. And there the finest hotel on their journey, the Great Western Royal Hotel, would be waiting to become their home away from home.
And so it was that in 1854 the world’s first palatial terminus hotel opened for business.
Almost 150 years of history have made it a legend. This is the story of the Great Western Royal Hotel: from the first Royal visit, to Agatha Christie’s 4.50 from Paddington and Paddington, the famous bear. From the Great Western Royal Hotel in 1854 to the Hilton London Paddington in 2002.

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