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Great Western Railway 2-6-2 T: 1924 Numbered 1213 from delivery until gaining the No 9 in 1948. [5] Put through Swindon works as an overhaul of the original No 2, but is in fact a complete new locomotive. [6] As of November 2016 the locomotive carries No 1213 and GWR Green livery. Under Overhaul 60 Drakensberg: Hanomag 2-6-2+2-6-2: 1927
The whole company was rebranded Great Western Railway (GWR) on 20 September 2015, [28] with the introduction of a green livery in recognition of the former Great Western Railway which existed between 1835 and 1947. [29] [30] The new livery was introduced when HST interiors were refurbished, and on sleeper carriages and Class 57/6 locomotives. [31]
In late 2017, Dapol released an OO model of the streamlined 1936 Gloucester RCW railcars in a variety of liveries and numbers. Heljan manufacture a model of the 1940-style railcar in OO gauge, using new tooling, that includes internal lighting and front and rear lighting.
Number and name Type Builder Photograph Livery History Owner Notes No. 6990 "Witherslack Hall" GWR 6959 Class 4-6-0: Swindon Works: BR Lined Green, Early Emblem: Built in 1948. 6990 was selected as a post-nationalisation locomotive to participate in the Locomotive Exchanges of 1948 on the former Great Central Main Line.
The first Locomotives of the Great Western Railway (GWR) were specified by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but Daniel Gooch was soon appointed as the railway's Locomotive Superintendent. He designed several different 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in ( 2,140 mm ) broad gauge types for the growing railway, such as the Firefly and later Iron Duke Class .
The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, Part 3: Absorbed Engines 1854-1921. The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. 1956. Ottley, George (1983). A Bibliography of British Railway History (2nd ed.). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. p. 475. ISBN 0112903347.
The Great Western Railway's ships operated in connection with the company's trains to provide services to Ireland, the Channel Islands and France. [1] Powers were granted by act of Parliament for the Great Western Railway (GWR) to operate ships in 1871. The following year the company took over the ships operated by Ford and Jackson on the route ...
The passenger coaches of the Great Western Railway (GWR) were many and varied, ranging from four and six-wheeled vehicles for the original broad gauge line of 1838, through to bogie coaches up to 70 feet (21 m) long which were in service through to 1947. Vacuum brakes, bogies and through-corridors all came into use during the nineteenth century ...