The Cambrian Railways 4-4-0 locomotives consisted of five tender locomotive classes introduced between 1878 and 1921. Three of them were designed for...
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as fireless locomotives, crane tank locomotives, tram engines and geared steam locomotives. It was also widely used on narrow gauge railways. In New South...
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The Cambrian Railways owned 230 miles (370 km) of track over a large area of mid Wales. The system was an amalgamation of a number of railways that were...
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locomotives to be withdrawn from service, surviving until August 1968, the last year of steam on British Rail. She was also one of four locomotives chosen...
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The Cambrian Heritage Railways is a heritage railway company, trust and society based at both Llynclys and Oswestry in its restored Oswestry railway station...
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The BR Standard Class 4 2-6-0 is a class of steam locomotive designed by Robert Riddles for British Railways (BR). 115 locomotives were built to this standard...
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GWR 3200 Class (category 4-4-0 locomotives)
Cambrian Railways in 1923, but, with the Cambrian main line being lightly built, permanent way restrictions debarred the use of heavier locomotives....
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The GWR 0-4-0ST steam locomotives were acquired by the Great Western Railway at the 1923 grouping. They came from small railways (mostly in South Wales)...
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GWR 3252 Class (redirect from Duke 4-4-0)
The Great Western Railway 3252 or Duke Class were 4-4-0 steam locomotives with outside frames and parallel domed boilers. They were built in five batches...
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(762 mm) gauge 0-6-0T locomotives acquired with the Cambrian Railways on 1 January 1922. 36 locomotives acquired on 1 January 1922. Two locomotives were acquired...
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The British Railways Standard Class 4 tank is a class of steam locomotive, one of the BR standard classes built during the 1950s. They were used primarily...
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The Cambrian Line (Welsh: Llinell y Cambrian), sometimes split into the Cambrian Main Line (Welsh: Prif Linell y Cambrian) and Cambrian Coast Line (Welsh:...
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way through the town, using the locomotive bell as a warning. In the 1923 Grouping of railway companies, Cambrian Railways, including the Welshpool to Llanfair...
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GWR 7800 Class (category 4-6-0 locomotives)
The Great Western Railway (GWR) 7800 Class or Manor Class is a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive. They were designed as a lighter version of the Grange Class...
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order for six 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) gauge locomotives for Mauritius. Although several of the locomotives in the order were sent to Mauritius, Diana wasn’t...
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and Dolgelley Railway Company. Its original 19 mi (31 km) route ran between the Corwen & Bala Railway at Bala Junction and Cambrian Railways' station at...
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Bridge in Cambrian Railways livery British narrow gauge railways Great Little Trains of Wales List of British heritage and private railways Tourism in...
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Nagpur Railway had 32 Garratts: a pair of HSG class 2-8-0+0-8-2 locomotives built in 1925; 16 N class and 10 NM class 4-8-0+0-8-4 locomotives built in...
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GWR 6800 Class 6880 Betton Grange (category 4-6-0 locomotives)
rising, these smaller, older and less powerful locomotives were scheduled to be replaced by new 4-6-0 locomotives by the 1930s. The Granges were effectively...
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Corris Railway, and the line's two original steam locomotives were among the earliest locomotives built for such a narrow gauge. No. 1 Talyllyn is an 0-4-2ST...
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Cambrian Railways company enabled the building of the line. The company was always in debt and in 1921 was obliged to sell the line to the Cambrian Railways...
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GWR 3521 Class (category 4-4-0 locomotives)
withdrawn in 1934. The first twenty locomotives were turned out in 1887 as 0-4-2T locomotives for services on the 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge...
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the four new steam locomotives introduced. Most of the 15 in (381 mm) gauge locomotives left the site. Two of the new locomotives had run on the Réseau...
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many Peckett locomotives were preserved as working engines on heritage railways. The oldest surviving Fox Walker locomotive is Karlskoga, an 0-6-0ST of 1873...
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2 km) long Welsh Highland Heritage Railway which runs from Porthmadog along the trackbed of the former Cambrian Railways exchange siding and connects to...
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The Metropolitan Railway A Class and B Class were 4-4-0T condensing steam locomotives built for the Metropolitan Railway by Beyer Peacock, first used...
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The BR Standard Class 2 2-6-0 is a class of steam locomotive, one of the British Railways Standard classes of the 1950s. They were physically the smallest...
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lines. At Llanymynech the line terminated in a junction with the Cambrian Railways; the PS&NWR had its own platforms there. The main line was double...
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Class 47 locomotives, but also includes Class 57 locomotives, including the prototype passenger locomotive 57601. Several Class 37 locomotives were purchased...
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reflected in the 1,650 locomotives it owned – it was by far the most densely-trafficked system in the British Isles with more locomotives per mile than any...
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