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In February 1908, a steam rail motor was turned out from Swindon railway works and given the number 93. It was one of sixteen built to Diagram R, the last batch of steam rail motors. These were 70 feet (21 m) long and 9 feet (2.7 m) wide.
The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, part thirteen: Preservation and Supplementary Information. RCTS. ISBN 0-901115-60-6. Davies, Ken (April 1993). The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, part fourteen: Names and their Origins - Railmotor Services - War Service - The Complete Preservation Story. Lincoln: RCTS. ISBN 0-901115-75-4.
In 1854 the GWR absorbed two standard-gauge lines, the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway and the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway to become the GWR's Northern Division. . Consequently, from then until his retirement in 1864, Daniel Gooch (the company's Superintendent of Locomotive Engines, a post he had occupied since 1837), although a passionate advocate of the GWR's original broad gauge, of ...
ex-Great Western Railway No. 6833 Calcot Grange, a 4-6-0 Grange class steam locomotive, at Bristol Temple Meads railway station. The steam locomotives of British Railways were used by British Railways over the period 1948–1968. The vast majority of these were inherited from its four constituent companies, the "Big Four".
District Railway steam locomotives; Dunrobin (locomotive) E. Experiment (locomotive) F. Furness Railway 94 class; ... GWR 93 Class; GWR 101 Class; GWR 102 La France;
The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway. Vol. Part 1. Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. Reed, P.J.T. (December 1956). Absorbed Engines, 1854-1921. The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway. Vol. Part 3. Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. LeFleming, H.M. (April 1958). Six-Coupled Tank Engines. The Locomotives of the ...
A preserved GWR 4500 Class steam locomotive, showing power classification "C" on a yellow route restriction disc, on the upper cab side-sheet. On 1 July 1905 the Great Western Railway (GWR) introduced a system for denoting both the haulage capabilities and the weight restrictions which applied to their various classes of locomotive.
The 5101 Class were medium-sized tank engines used for suburban and local passenger services all over the Great Western Railway system. The class was an updated version, by Collett, of Churchward's 1903 3100/5100 Class. The original 40 members of the 3100 class were renumbered 5100 and 5111 to 5149 in 1927.