• Thumbnail for GWR 322 Class (tank engine)
    The GWR 322 Class tank engines comprised six Great Western Railway outside-framed 0-6-0 steam locomotives, originally built by Beyer, Peacock, and Company...
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    The GWR 5700 Class (or 57xx class) is a class of 0-6-0PT steam locomotive built by the Great Western Railway (GWR) and British Railways (BR) between 1929...
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    The Great Western Railway (GWR) 9400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, used for shunting and banking duties. The first ten 9400s...
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  • comprise several classes of locomotives designed by Daniel Gooch, Superintendent of Locomotive Engines for the Great Western Railway (GWR) from 1837 to 1864...
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    The GWR 5600 Class is a class of 0-6-2T steam locomotive built between 1924 and 1928. They were designed by Charles Collett for the Great Western Railway...
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  • Thumbnail for GWR 119 Class (tank engine)
    1861 at Swindon Works as tender engines to a design of Daniel Gooch, part of the 79 Class. Their rebuilding as tank engines was the result of being renewed...
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  • Thumbnail for GWR 6400 Class
    The Great Western Railway (GWR) 6400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive introduced by Charles Collett in 1932. All 40 examples were...
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    Great Western Railway (GWR) express passenger locomotives. The Star class was designed to take the top express trains on the GWR, with 61 in service by...
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    Didcot. Soon after this, the GWR ordered the next three production units, Nos. 2 to 4, which were built with two engines (instead of one) which allowed...
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    Six-coupled Tank Engines. RCTS. ISBN 0-901115-35-5. OCLC 500544510. Coleford, I.C. (2007). "Swindon's saddle tanks - the GWR's 1361 class 0-6-0STs". Railway...
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    GWR 5101 Class or 'Large Prairie' is a class of 2-6-2T steam locomotives of the Great Western Railway. The 5101 Class were medium-sized tank engines used...
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  • Thumbnail for GWR 101 Class
    The GWR 101 Class consisted of a single experimental 0-4-0T side-tank steam locomotive. It was built at GWR Swindon Works under the direction of George...
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  • Thumbnail for GWR 7200 Class
    (GWR) 7200 Class is a class of 2-8-2T steam locomotive. They were the only 2-8-2Ts built and used by a British railway, and the largest tank engines to...
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  • Thumbnail for GWR 4900 Class
    Railway (GWR) was well served with express passenger locomotives of the Saint and Star classes and had recently introduced the Castle Class. However,...
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  • Thumbnail for USATC S100 Class
    British Great Western Railway (GWR) had used many S100s in South Wales during the Second World War. The GWR 1500 Class was partially inspired by the S100...
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    basic design of his GWR 2800 Class, and adapted it. After proposing a 2-8-2T design, Churchward developed the UK's first 2-8-0 tank engine, through concerns...
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    GWR designs. In the event the standard inside Stephenson link motion of the Churchward and Collett two cylinder classes was used. The GWR 1500 Class,...
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  • November of that year. They were also the basis for the 'County Tank' GWR 2221 Class design, a 4-4-2T using the same basic design as the County but with...
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  • Thumbnail for GWR 1366 Class
    The Great Western Railway (GWR) 1366 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotives built in 1934. They were a useful design and because of their...
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    The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2251 Class or Collett Goods Class was a class of 0-6-0 steam tender locomotives designed for medium-powered freight. They...
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    The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4575 Class is a class of 2-6-2T British steam locomotives. They were designed as small mixed traffic branch locomotives...
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    The Great Western Railway (GWR) 1500 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive. Despite being a GWR Hawksworth design, all ten (nos 1500–1509)...
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    The GWR 1101 Class was a class of 0-4-0T side tank steam locomotives built by the Avonside Engine Company to the order of the Great Western Railway in...
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  • The GWR 0-6-0PT (pannier tank), is a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway with the water tanks carried on both sides of...
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  • Thumbnail for GWR 6100 Class
    The GWR 6100 Class is a class of 2-6-2T side tank steam locomotives. The class was designed by Charles Collett and introduced in 1931, and were a straightforward...
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  • Thumbnail for British Rail Class 800
    The British Rail Class 800, branded as the Intercity Express Train (IET) by Great Western Railway (GWR) and Azuma by London North Eastern Railway (LNER)...
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    Star were a class of 4-cylinder 4-6-0 passenger steam locomotives designed by George Jackson Churchward for the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1906 and...
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  • Thumbnail for GWR Iron Duke class
    Lord of the Isles (the last to be withdrawn) was initially preserved by the GWR at Swindon Works, but was scrapped in January 1906 owing to the pressure...
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  • Thumbnail for GWR 3200 Class
    only a few classes of GWR locomotive were allowed to run over it, including the Duke Class. However, by the 1930s the Duke class engines were past their...
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    Regular withdrawal of the class began in August of the following year and by July 1930 only two engines were left in service on the GWR, these being 3712 City...
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